{{Short description|SEPTA Regional Rail station}} {{Use American English|date=February 2025}} {{more citations needed|date=August 2016}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox station | name = Ivy Ridge | style = SEPTA | style2 = SEPTA Regional Rail | symbol_location = septa | symbol = septa | image = Ivy Ridge Station.jpg | image_caption = Ivy Ridge station in April 2012 | address = 4910 Umbria Street<br>[[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] 19128 | coordinates = {{coord|40.0341|N|75.2355|W|type:railwaystation_region:US|display=inline,title}} | line = [[Norristown Branch]] | other = {{bus icon|12px|City Bus}} '''[[SEPTA City Transit Division bus routes|SEPTA City Bus]]''': {{SEPTA bus link|61|62}} | structure = | platform = 2 [[side platform]]s | depth = | levels = | tracks = 2 | parking = | bicycle = | baggage_check = | passengers = 703 boardings<br/>782 alightings<br/>(weekday average)<ref>{{cite web | title=Fiscal Year 2021 Service Plan Update| publisher=[[SEPTA]] | date=June 2020 | url=https://planning.septa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/FY-2021_Service_Plan_Update.docx | page=24 | access-date=March 11, 2022}}</ref> | pass_year = 2017 | pass_percent = | pass_system = | opened = October 6, 1980 (SEPTA Ivy Ridge Line)<ref>{{cite news |title=Manayunk Joins the 'System' |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/43543565/ivy_ridge_station_october_6_1980/ |access-date=February 3, 2020 |work=The Philadelphia Daily News |date=October 6, 1980 |page=15|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}} </ref><br>August 25, 1986 (SEPTA Manayunk/Norristown Line)<ref name="1986open">{{cite news |title=Ivy Ridge Station Will Be Back on Line |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/43543977/ivy_ridge_station_august_22_1986/ |access-date=February 3, 2020 |work=The Philadelphia Daily News |date=August 22, 1986 |page=8|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}} </ref> | closed = May 16, 1986 (SEPTA Ivy Ridge Line)<ref name="1986open" /> | rebuilt = | electrified = {{Plainlist| * July 20, 1930<ref>{{cite news |title=Electric Lines Opened by Pennsy |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/58941564/electric-pennsy-july-21-1930/ |access-date=September 9, 2020 |work=The Altoona Mirror |date=July 21, 1930 |page=3|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}} </ref> (Pennsylvania) * February 5, 1933<ref>{{cite news |title=New Electric Schedule |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57806419/norristown-chestnut-hill-electric/ |access-date=August 21, 2020 |work=The Scranton Times |date=February 4, 1933 |page=12|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}} </ref> (Reading) }} | accessible = No | code = | owned = [[SEPTA]] | zone = 2 | former = | pass_rank = 32 of 146 | services = {{Adjacent stations|system1=SEPTA |line1=Manayunk/Norristown|left1=Miquon|right1=Manayunk |line2=Manayunk/Norristown|left2=Shawmont|right2=Manayunk|note-left2=Closed 1996 }} | other_services_collapsible = yes | other_services_header = Former services | other_services = {{Adjacent stations|system=SEPTA|line=Ivy Ridge|right=Manayunk West|note-left=}} | mpassengers = | mapframe = yes | mapframe-zoom = 14 | mapframe-marker-color = #{{rcr|SEPTA|Manayunk/Norristown}} | mapframe-marker = rail }} '''Ivy Ridge station''' is a [[SEPTA Regional Rail]] station in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]]. Located at Umbria Street and Parker Avenue in [[Northwest Philadelphia]], it serves the [[Manayunk/Norristown Line]]. The initial station was built in a minimalist design similar to that of [[Elm Street, Norristown (SEPTA station)|Elm Street, Norristown]]. The current station has a 204-space parking lot. In [[Fiscal year|FY]] 2013, Ivy Ridge station had a weekday average of 602 boardings and 582 alightings.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.septa.org/reports/pdf/asp15.pdf |title=SEPTA (May 2014). ''Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Service Plan.'' p. 62 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812142611/http://www.septa.org/reports/pdf/asp15.pdf |archive-date=2014-08-12 }} {{small|(539 KB)}}</ref>
==History== [[File:Ivy Ridge Station Former Platform.jpg|thumb|left|Demolition of out-of-service station platform, April 8, 2012]]
SEPTA constructed Ivy Ridge in 1980 when service was extended an additional {{convert|0.8|mi}} past [[Manayunk West station]], the passenger terminus of the [[Pennsylvania Railroad]]'s (PRR) [[Schuylkill Branch]] since 1960. Up until then, the {{convert|0.8|mi}} of track had been used by Manayunk trains to change direction within a remotely controlled [[interlocking]] where the Schuylkill Branch (by that time, abandoned north of this point) went from two tracks to one. The single-platform Ivy Ridge station was constructed within the space occupied by the abandoned second track, removed in the early 1960s after the PRR discontinued passenger service to [[Norristown, Pennsylvania|Norristown]]. A moderate-sized park-and-ride lot was included.<ref name=williams>{{Williams-Philadelphia | pages=84–86}}</ref>
SEPTA suspended service beyond [[Cynwyd station (SEPTA)|Cynwyd]] in March 1986 because of deteriorating track conditions and concerns about the [[Manayunk Bridge]]; a shuttle bus ran from [[Manayunk station|Manayunk]] on the [[Manayunk/Norristown Line]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Ivy Ridge station, August 22, 1986|newspaper=Philadelphia Daily News |date=22 August 1986 |page=8 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/43543977/ivy-ridge-station-august-22-1986/|publisher=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Starting The Second Life Of A Manayunk Icon|url=https://hiddencityphila.org/2014/07/starting-the-second-life-of-manayunk-icon/|publisher=Hidden City Philadelphia}}</ref> In August SEPTA constructed the current platforms along the ex-Reading Norristown line down the bluff from the ex-Pennsylvania line.<ref>{{cite web |title=A GENERAL CHRONOLOGY OF THE SUCCESSORS OF THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY AND THEIR HISTORICAL CONTEXT: 1980-1989 |url=http://www.prrths.com/newprr_files/Hagley/PRR1980.pdf |publisher=Pennsylvania Railroad Technical and Historical Society |first=Christopher T. |last=Baer |date=April 2015}}</ref> For a while, the park-and-ride lot sat unused until SEPTA erected a 39-step stairway connecting the derelict PRR upper level and RDG lower level station sites. In the beginning, the steep staircase discouraged ridership, but this changed as ridership grew in the 1990s.<ref name=williams/>
While the PRR platform was built to high level standards (a rarity on the SEPTA Regional Rail system), and was constructed before the [[Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990]], the hastily constructed RDG station platform are low level. The derelict upper level platform was eventually demolished in April 2012.{{citation needed|date=August 2016}}
As it became clear that SEPTA had no interest in reviving service to the upper Ivy Ridge station, the parking lot was expanded with sections of the PRR track being removed. All remaining Schuylkill Branch trackage in Manayunk was dismantled in June 2010 to make way for the Ivy Ridge Trail, a Philadelphia extension of the [[Cynwyd Heritage Trail]] over the [[Manayunk Bridge|Pencoyd Viaduct]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ivyridgegreen.org/2010/06/ |title=Ivy Ridge Green |access-date=2010-10-21 |archive-date=2011-07-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726200654/http://www.ivyridgegreen.org/2010/06/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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