{{Short description|SEPTA train station in Yardley, Pennsylvania, United States}} {{distinguish|Yardley Wood railway station}} {{Use American English|date=February 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox station | name = Yardley | style = SEPTA | style2 = SEPTA Regional Rail | symbol_location = septa | symbol = septa | image = SEPTA Silverliner IV 406 at Yardley station.jpeg | image_caption = Outbound train arriving in 2018 | address = Reading Avenue and Main Street<br>[[Yardley, Pennsylvania]], U.S. | coordinates = {{coord|40.2351|-74.8310|type:railwaystation_region:US-PA|display=inline,title}} | line = [[Neshaminy Line]] | other = | structure = | platform = 1 [[side platform]] | depth = | levels = | tracks = 2 | parking = 275 | bicycle = 2 bike racks (4 total spots) | passengers = 349 boardings<br/>328 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 = April 27, 1876 (ceremonial service)<ref>{{cite news |title=Opening a New Rail Route |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/58805091/delaware-bb-road-may-3-1876/ |access-date=September 6, 2020 |work=The Lancaster Intelligencer |date=May 3, 1876 |page=2|via=Newspapers.com}} {{open access}}</ref>{{sfn|Warner|1957|p=53–54}}<br>May 1, 1876 (regular service){{sfn|Poor|1865|p=711}}{{sfn|Warner|1957|p=53–54}} | closed = | rebuilt = | electrified = July 26, 1931<ref>{{cite news |title=Reading Installs Electric Service |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57809734/reading-electric-july-26-1931/ |access-date=August 22, 2020 |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |date=July 26, 1931 |page=8|via=Newspapers.com}} {{open access}}</ref> | accessible = Yes | code = | owned = [[SEPTA]] | zone = 4 | former = | pass_rank = 79 of 146 | services = {{Adjacent stations|system=SEPTA|line=West Trenton|left=Woodbourne|right=West Trenton}} | other_services_collapsible = yes | other_services_header = Former services | other_services = {{Adjacent stations|system=Reading Company|line=New York Branch|left=Roelofs|right=West Trenton}} | mpassengers = | footnotes = | mapframe = yes | mapframe-zoom = 14 | mapframe-marker-color = #{{rcr|SEPTA|West Trenton}} | mapframe-marker = rail }} '''Yardley station''' is a [[SEPTA Regional Rail]] station in [[Yardley, Pennsylvania]].<ref name="septa">{{cite web |url=https://www.septa.org/stations/rail/yardley.html |title=Yardley Station| access-date = 23 July 2020|last=SEPTA}}</ref> It is located at Main Street and Reading Avenue and serves the [[West Trenton Line (SEPTA)|West Trenton Line]] to New Jersey.<ref name="septa" /> The station has off-street parking. In [[Fiscal year|FY]] 2017, Yardley station had a weekday average of 349 boardings and 328 alightings.<ref>{{cite web |title=Fiscal Year 2020: Annual Service Plan |url=https://planning.septa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Annual-Service-Plan-FY2020.pdf |website=septa.org |publisher=SEPTA |access-date=2 January 2022}}</ref> By August 2015, as a result of the SEPTA and CSX separation between Woodbourne and West Trenton stations,<ref>{{cite news |title=SEPTA Train Service On West Trenton Line To Be Replaced By Shuttle Bus On Monday |url=https://levittownnow.com/2015/08/21/septa-train-service-on-west-trenton-line-to-be-replaced-by-shuttle-bus-on-monday/ |access-date=2 January 2022 |work=LevittownNow.com |date=21 August 2015}}</ref> the outbound platform was removed, and all SEPTA traffic was diverted onto the Inbound track. Currently, all SEPTA service between Yardley and West Trenton operates on the Inbound track only.
==History== The station was originally built to be part of the Bound Brook branch of the [[Philadelphia & Reading Railroad]] (P&R). In 1874, it was announced that the P&R would build a line from [[Jenkintown station]] to the Delaware River where it would have a bridge to connect it to the Delaware and Bound Railroad.{{sfn|Warner|1957|p=53}}
==Station layout== Yardley consists of a single high-level [[side platform]].
== Bibliography == *{{cite book |last1=Poor |first1=Henry Varnum |title=Manual of the Railroads of the United States: Volume 27 |date=1865 |publisher=H.V. & H.W. Poor}} *{{cite journal |last1=Warner |first1=Paul T. |title=Eight-Wheelers Between New York and Philadelphia 1870 - 1900 |journal=The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin |date=May 1957 |issue=96 |pages=44–62 |jstor=43520154 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43520154 |issn=0033-8842}}
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==External links== {{commons category|Yardley (SEPTA station)}} * {{SEPTA links}} *[http://www.west2k.com/papix/yardley.jpg Former Yardley P&R Station] *[https://www.flickr.com/photos/roadgeek/tags/yardleystation/ Flickr images by "Roadgeek Adam"] {{SEPTA Regional Rail stations}}
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