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49th Street

Philadelphia, Italy

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. The station is a shelter

ed shed that sits on one platform; the other platform has a ramp to the Chester Avenue bridge. The station is handicapped-accessible. The Media/Wawa line was originally the main line of the West Chester and Philadelphia Railroad, laid in 1852–53. There has been a station at this location since at least 1886, when the line was owned by the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad.

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