Spring Mill
Spring Mill station in April 2012. The Schuylkill River Trail is visible to the right.
General information
Location98 Station Avenue,
Conshohocken, Pennsylvania 19428
Owned bySEPTA
Line(s)Norristown Branch
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
ConnectionsBike transport Schuylkill River Trail
Construction
Parking154 spaces
AccessibleYes
Other information
Fare zone3
History
ElectrifiedFebruary 5, 1933[1]
Passengers
2017509 boardings
521 alightings
(weekday average)[2]
Rank49 of 146
Services
Preceding station SEPTA Following station
Conshohocken
toward Norristown–Elm Street
 Manayunk/​Norristown Line Miquon
toward Penn Medicine
Former services
Preceding station Reading Railroad Following station
Conshohocken
toward Elm Street
 Norristown Branch Miquon
toward Philadelphia

Spring Mill station is a suburban commuter railroad station on the SEPTA Manayunk/Norristown Line in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Its official address is Station Avenue near Hector Street, Conshohocken (ZIP code 19428), but it is actually in the Spring Mill section of Whitemarsh Township. The station is located south of Hector Street, where North Lane deadends at the Schuylkill River.

The original station was established by the Reading Railroad about 1880, and took its name from the nearby 18th-century grist mill.

In FY 2013, Spring Mill station had a weekday average of 378 boardings and 358 alightings.[3] It has a 154-space parking lot, and is handicapped-accessible. The Schuylkill River Trail passes next to the station.

Due to the proximity of the Schuylkill River and a pair of tributary streams, the station is periodically subjected to flooding, resulting in the temporary suspension of all service on the Manayunk/Norristown Line.[4][5] A project to replace the line's signal system is underway in 2013 that is intended to confine future flooding closures on the line to the section above Miquon station, by allowing partial service further down the line instead of no service on the line at all.[6]

Station layout

P
Platform level		 Side platform, doors will open on the right Disabled access
Inbound ←      Manayunk/​Norristown Line toward 30th Street or Penn Medicine (Miquon)
Outbound      Manayunk/​Norristown Line toward Elm Street – Norristown (Conshohocken) →
Side platform, doors will open on the right Disabled access
Street level Exit/entrance and parking

References

  1. ↑ "New Electric Schedule". The Scranton Times. February 4, 1933. p. 12. Retrieved August 21, 2020 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  2. ↑ "Fiscal Year 2021 Service Plan Update". SEPTA. June 2020. p. 24. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
  3. ↑ "SEPTA (May 2014). Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Service Plan. p. 61" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-08-12. (539 KB)
  4. ↑ Sunnergren, Tom; et al. (9 September 2011). "Schuylkill to Crest at Over 20 Feet Friday Morning". Plymouth-Whitemarsh Patch. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
  5. ↑ "SEPTA Team Awarded Grant for Climate Adaptation Plan". SEPTA Sustainability Journal. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
  6. ↑ "Manayunk/Norristown Line Shuttle Busing: An Explanation". SEPTA. Retrieved 6 April 2013.

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