# North Hills station

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SEPTA Regional Rail station

North Hills General information Location Station & Mount Carmel Avenues North Hills, PA 19038 Coordinates 40°06′44″N 75°10′12″W / 40.1122°N 75.1699°W / 40.1122; -75.1699 Owned by SEPTA Line SEPTA Main Line Platforms 2 side platforms Tracks 2 Construction Platform levels 1 Parking 147 spaces Accessible No Other information Fare zone 3 History Opened July 2, 1855 (1855-07-02) Electrified July 26, 1931[1] Previous names Edge Hill North Glenside Key dates 1978 Station agent eliminated[2] Services Preceding station SEPTA Following station Glenside toward Penn Medicine Station Lansdale/​Doylestown Line Oreland toward Doylestown Former services Preceding station Reading Railroad Following station Glenside toward Philadelphia Bethlehem Branch Oreland toward Bethlehem Location

**North Hills station** is a station along the [SEPTA](/source/SEPTA) [Lansdale/Doylestown Line](/source/Lansdale%2FDoylestown_Line). The station, located in SEPTA Fare Zone 3 at the intersection of Station and Mount Carmel Avenues, includes a 147-space parking lot. In [FY](/source/Fiscal_year) 2013, North Hills station had a weekday average of 202 boardings and 219 alightings.[3]

The station was originally known as **Edge Hill** and was part of the original [North Pennsylvania Railroad](/source/North_Pennsylvania_Railroad) route between [Philadelphia](/source/Philadelphia) and [Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania](/source/Gwynedd_Valley%2C_Pennsylvania). Service began over this line on July 2, 1855.[4]

## Station layout

North Hills has two low-level [side platforms](/source/Side_platform).

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Reading Installs Electric Service"](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57809734/reading-electric-july-26-1931/). *The Philadelphia Inquirer*. July 26, 1931. p. 8. Retrieved August 22, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Barger, Theresa Sullivan (September 25, 1986). ["New Life for the North Hills Station"](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30405372/the-philadelphia-inquirer/). *The Philadelphia Inquirer*. p. 16H. Retrieved October 9, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["SEPTA (May 2014). *Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Service Plan*. p. 62"](https://web.archive.org/web/20140812142611/http://www.septa.org/reports/pdf/asp15.pdf) (PDF). Archived from [the original](http://www.septa.org/reports/pdf/asp15.pdf) (PDF) on August 12, 2014. (539 KB)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Hare, Jay V. (1944). *History of the North Pennsylvania Railroad*. Philadelphia: Reading Company. p. 6. [OCLC](/source/OCLC_(identifier)) [11885870](https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/11885870).

## External links

- [SEPTA – North Hills station](https://www.septa.org/stations/north-hills-station)

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