Miquon station

{{Short description|SEPTA Regional Rail station}} {{Use American English|date=February 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2024}} {{coord|40.0587|N|75.2665|W|type:railwaystation_region:US|display=title}} {{Infobox station | name = Miquon | style = SEPTA | style2 = SEPTA Regional Rail | symbol_location = septa | symbol = septa | image = Miquon Train Station Montco Planning Com.jpg | image_size = | image_caption = The Center City-bound platform and shelter at Miquon station | address = 1096 River Road<br>[[Whitemarsh Township, Pennsylvania]] 19452 | coordinates = | line = [[Norristown Branch]] | other = | structure = | platform = 2 [[side platform]]s | depth = | levels = | tracks = 2 | parking = 230 spaces | bicycle = | baggage_check = | passengers = 444 boardings<br/>442 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 = 1910 | closed = | rebuilt = | electrified = February 5, 1933<ref>{{cite news |title=New Electric Schedule |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57806419/norristown-chestnut-hill-electric/ |accessdate=August 21, 2020 |work=The Scranton Times |date=February 4, 1933 |page=12|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> | accessible = No | code = | owned = [[SEPTA]] | zone = 2 | former = Lafayette | pass_rank = 57 of 146 | services = {{Adjacent stations|system1=SEPTA |line1=Manayunk/Norristown|left1=Spring Mill|right1=Ivy Ridge |line2=Manayunk/Norristown|left2=Spring Mill|right2=Shawmont|note-right2=Closed 1996 }} | other_services_collapsible = yes | other_services_header = Former services | other_services = {{Adjacent stations|system=Reading Company|line=Norristown Branch|left=Spring Mill|right=Shawmont}} | mpassengers = | mapframe = yes | mapframe-zoom = 14 | mapframe-marker-color = #{{rcr|SEPTA|Manayunk/Norristown}} | mapframe-marker = rail }} '''Miquon station''' is a suburban commuter railroad station on the [[SEPTA]] [[Manayunk/Norristown Line]], located at River and Manor Roads in the [[Miquon, Pennsylvania|Miquon]] section of [[Whitemarsh Township, Pennsylvania|Whitemarsh Township]], [[Montgomery County, Pennsylvania]], [[United States]]. It is the first station on the line outside [[Philadelphia]].

In [[Fiscal year|FY]] 2013, Miquon station had a weekday average of 483 boardings and 452 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 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812142611/http://www.septa.org/reports/pdf/asp15.pdf |archivedate=2014-08-12 }} {{small|(539 KB)}}</ref>

The station is adjacent to a large office park (River Park I and II), which was redeveloped from a former paper mill in 1999.<ref>{{cite web|title=River Park I|url=http://www.bpgroup.net/river-park-one.htm|publisher=The Buccini/Pollin Group|accessdate=3 April 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111105015502/http://www.bpgroup.net/river-park-one.htm|archivedate=5 November 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=River Park II |url=http://www.bpgroup.net/river-park-two.htm |publisher=The Buccini/Pollin Group |accessdate=3 April 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130520014458/http://www.bpgroup.net/river-park-two.htm |archivedate=20 May 2013 }}</ref> As of April 2013, parking includes about 60 spaces adjacent to the tracks along River Road, and 170 spaces in the River Park II lot; the latter lot has been shrinking in size due to the expansion of a private school ([[AIM Academy]]) which leased most of the River Park II complex beginning in 2011.<ref>{{cite web|title=State of the School Report: Winter 2013|url=http://www.aimpa.org/New/About/state.shtml|publisher=AIM Academy|accessdate=3 April 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130727051050/http://www.aimpa.org/New/About/state.shtml|archivedate=27 July 2013}}</ref>

The station building on the outbound side is leased to an outside party and does not currently sell tickets. There is a shelter on the inbound side; connecting the two platforms is an official pedestrian [[Level crossing|crossing]].

Miquon is expected to become a temporary turnback point for trains at times when the line is [[flood]]ed by the [[Schuylkill River]] around [[Spring Mill, Pennsylvania|Spring Mill]] and [[Conshohocken, Pennsylvania|Conshohocken]]. A new [[Centralized traffic control|remotely controlled]] [[interlocking]] has been built near the station for this purpose, as part of a project to install a modern [[Pulse code cab signaling|cab signal system]] on the line.<ref>{{cite web|title=Manayunk/Norristown Line Shuttle Busing: An Explanation|url=http://www.septa.org/alert/man-nor-shuttle-details.html|publisher=SEPTA|accessdate=3 April 2013}}</ref>

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==External links== {{Commonscat-inline|Miquon (SEPTA station)}} * {{SEPTA links}} * [https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=40.058732,-75.266218&spn=0.003892,0.010986&z=17&layer=c&cbll=40.058732,-75.266218&panoid=6BHqMUWXfxtu4rTeKnW3gw&cbp=12,214.6,,0,1.4 Station House from Google Maps Street View] * [http://www.west2k.com/papix/miquon.jpg Miquon Station House 2000 image by Mark Lehman (Existing Railroad Stations in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania)]

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