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Shawmont station

Philadelphia, Italy

Shawmont is a former train station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is located on Nixon Street in the Roxborough section of Lower Northwest Philadelphia. Built by the Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad, it later became part of the Reading Railroad and ultimately SEPTA Regional Rail's

R6 Norristown Line. SEPTA made the station a whistle stop and closed its waiting room in 1991. SEPTA later closed the station in 1996. The station building became a part of the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places, and in 2018 $1 million was awarded to rehabilitate the building, although it will not serve as a train station once repairs are complete.

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