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This is a route-map template for the Media/Wawa Line, an SEPTA regional rail line.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
Media/Wawa Line trains use the West Chester Branch, a former Pennsylvania Railroad line, which diverges from the SEPTA Main Line at 30th Street Station. At Arsenal Interlocking, just south of Penn Medicine , there is a junction with Amtrak's Northeast Corridor where Airport and Wilmington/Newark trains diverge.
Wawa station is a commuter rail station on the SEPTA Regional Rail Media/Wawa Line, located adjacent to U.S. Route 1 in Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.The original station was built by the West Chester and Philadelphia Railroad and later served the Pennsylvania Railroad's West Chester Branch, which finally became SEPTA's R3 line (later renamed to the "Media/Elwyn Line").
The branch was composed of rail lines built by two companies in the 19th century. One portion, a 9-mile (14 km) line from West Chester to Malvern, was built after 1831 by the West Chester Railroad. [3] The PRR leased the line in 1859, [4] and moved the Malvern end to a junction at Frazer in 1880. The PRR acquired the West Chester Railroad in 1903.
However, on November 10, 1996, R5 service to Parkesburg was truncated to Downingtown. In 2006, SEPTA started negotiations with Wawa Food Markets to purchase land in Wawa, Pennsylvania to build a new Park-and-Ride facility for a planned restoration of service between Elwyn and Wawa on the Media/Wawa Line, which previously ran to West Chester. On ...
This is a route-map template for the Airport Line (SEPTA), a United States SEPTA Regional Rail line.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
Media station was built in 1960 by the PRR and is located several blocks away from Media–Orange Street station, the terminus of the Route 101 line. However, no direct connection exists between the station and the trolley stop. Woodrow Wilson spoke at the Media station in 1912 during his first election campaign. [citation needed]
49th Street station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Philadelphia. It is located at 1104 South 49th Street in the Kingsessing section of Southwest Philadelphia, and serves the Media/Wawa Line. In 2013, this station saw 62 boardings and 52 alightings on an average weekday. [2]