Allegheny station (SEPTA Regional Rail)

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Allegheny
Allegheny station in December 2012.
General information
Location	22nd Street and Allegheny Avenue Swampoodle, Philadelphia, PA
Coordinates	40°00′13″N 75°09′54″W / 40.0037°N 75.1650°W / 40.0037; -75.1650
Owned by	SEPTA
Line(s)	Norristown Branch
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	SEPTA City Bus: 33, 60
Other information
Fare zone	1
History
Opened	1938[1]
Electrified	February 5, 1933[2]
Previous names	22nd Street
Services
Preceding station SEPTA Following station East Falls toward Norristown–Elm Street Manayunk/​Norristown Line North Broad toward Penn Medicine
Former services Preceding station Reading Railroad Following station East Falls toward Pottsville Main Line North Broad Street toward Philadelphia East Falls toward Elm Street Norristown Branch
Location

Allegheny station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station located along the Manayunk/Norristown Line located at 22nd Street and Allegheny Avenue in the Swampoodle neighborhood of North Philadelphia.^[3] It has also been known in Reading and early SEPTA timetables as 22nd Street or Twenty-Second Street, a name also shared by a former Pennsylvania Railroad station on the Trenton and Chestnut Hill lines. Allegheny station is the first station along SEPTA's Manayunk/Norristown Line not to be shared with any other line. In FY 2013, Allegheny station had a weekday average of 76 boardings and 102 alightings.^[4]