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Paoli/Thorndale Line

Index Paoli/Thorndale Line

The Paoli/Thorndale Line, formerly known as the R5, is a SEPTA Regional Rail service running from Center City Philadelphia to Thorndale in Chester County on Amtrak's Philadelphia to Harrisburg Main Line which is part of the Keystone Corridor which in turn was once the Main Line of the Pennsylvania Railroad. [1]

77 relations: Alternating current, Amtrak, Ardmore station (Pennsylvania), Berwyn station (SEPTA), Bombardier Transportation, Bryn Mawr station (SEPTA Regional Rail), Capital Area Transit (Harrisburg), Capital Red Rose Corridor, Center City Commuter Connection, Center City, Philadelphia, Chester County, Pennsylvania, Coatesville station, Coatesville, Pennsylvania, Commuter rail, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, Daylesford station, Dead mileage, Devon station, Direct current, Downingtown station, Downtown Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Electric multiple unit, EMD AEM-7, Exton station (Pennsylvania), Frazer, Pennsylvania, Harrisburg Transportation Center, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Haverford station, Keystone Corridor, Keystone Service, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Lancaster station (Pennsylvania), Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Lansdale/Doylestown Line, Long Island Rail Road, Main Line (Pennsylvania Railroad), Main Line of Public Works, Malvern station (SEPTA), Malvern, Pennsylvania, Merion station, Multiple unit, Narberth station (SEPTA), New York City, New York City Subway, NJ Transit, Northeast Corridor, Overbrook station, Overhead line, Paoli station, Paoli, Pennsylvania, ..., Parkesburg station, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Pennsylvania Railroad, Pennsylvanian (train), Philadelphia, Philadelphia Main Line, Philadelphia to Harrisburg Main Line, Pittsburgh, Positive train control, PRR MP54, Radnor station (SEPTA Regional Rail), Rosemont station (SEPTA), SEPTA, SEPTA Regional Rail, Silverliner, St. Davids station, Strafford station, Suburban Station, Temple University station, Third rail, Thorndale station (SEPTA), Villanova station (SEPTA Regional Rail), Wayne station, Whitford station, Wynnewood station, 30th Street Station, 52nd Street station (SEPTA Regional Rail). Expand index (27 more) »

Alternating current

Alternating current (AC) is an electric current which periodically reverses direction, in contrast to direct current (DC) which flows only in one direction.

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Amtrak

The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak, is a passenger railroad service that provides medium- and long-distance intercity service in the contiguous United States and to three Canadian cities.

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Ardmore station (Pennsylvania)

Ardmore station is a train station in Ardmore, Pennsylvania served by Amtrak and SEPTA Regional Rail.

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Berwyn station (SEPTA)

Berwyn station is a commuter rail station in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, served by SEPTA Regional Rail.

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Bombardier Transportation

Bombardier Transportation is the rail equipment division of the Canadian firm Bombardier Inc. Bombardier Transportation is one of the world's largest companies in the rail vehicle and equipment manufacturing and servicing industry.

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Bryn Mawr station (SEPTA Regional Rail)

Bryn Mawr station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.

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Capital Area Transit (Harrisburg)

Capital Area Transit (CAT), also known as the Cumberland-Dauphin-Harrisburg Transit Authority, is a regional public transportation agency that operates bus and paratransit service in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania metropolitan area.

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Capital Red Rose Corridor

Capital Red Rose Corridor, formerly known as Corridor One (corporately styled CORRIDORone), is a commuter rail system proposed in South Central Pennsylvania, United States which will link Harrisburg and Lancaster.

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Center City Commuter Connection

The ASCE plaque in Jefferson Station City plaque in Jefferson Station The Center City Commuter Connection, commonly referred to as "the commuter tunnel", is a passenger railroad tunnel in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, built to connect the stub ends of the two separate regional commuter rail systems, originally operated by two rival railroad companies: the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Reading Company.

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Center City, Philadelphia

Center City includes the central business district and central neighborhoods of Philadelphia, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.

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Chester County, Pennsylvania

Chester County (Chesco) is a county in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.

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Coatesville station

Coatesville is an Amtrak rail station located in the far western suburbs of Philadelphia at Third Avenue and Fleetwood Street in Coatesville, Pennsylvania.

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Coatesville, Pennsylvania

Coatesville is a city in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Commuter rail

Commuter rail, also called suburban rail, is a passenger rail transport service that primarily operates between a city centre and middle to outer suburbs beyond 15 km (10 miles) and commuter towns or other locations that draw large numbers of commuters—people who travel on a daily basis.

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Dauphin County, Pennsylvania

Dauphin County is a county in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.

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Daylesford station

Daylesford station is a commuter rail station located in the western suburbs of Philadelphia at Glenn Avenue and Lancaster Avenue in Berwyn, Pennsylvania.

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Dead mileage

Dead mileage, dead running or dead heading in public transport and empty leg in air charter, is when a revenue gaining vehicle operates without carrying or accepting passengers, such as when coming from a garage to begin its first trip of the day.

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Devon station

Devon station is a commuter rail station located in the western suburbs of Philadelphia at 98 North Devon Boulevard and Lancaster Avenue in Devon, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Direct current

Direct current (DC) is the unidirectional flow of electric charge.

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Downingtown station

Downingtown station is a commuter and intercity passenger rail station located in the western suburbs of Philadelphia at West Lancaster Avenue & Stuart Avenue in Downingtown, Pennsylvania.

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Downtown Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Downtown Harrisburg, is the central core business and government center which surrounds the focal point of Market Square, and serves as the regional center for the greater metropolitan area of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Electric multiple unit

An electric multiple unit or EMU is a multiple-unit train consisting of self-propelled carriages, using electricity as the motive power.

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EMD AEM-7

The AEM-7 is a twin-cab four-axle B-B electric locomotive built by Electro-Motive Division (EMD) and ASEA between 1978 and 1988.

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Exton station (Pennsylvania)

Exton station is a train station in Exton, Pennsylvania, in the western suburbs of Philadelphia.

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Frazer, Pennsylvania

Frazer is a community in East Whiteland Township in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Harrisburg Transportation Center

The Harrisburg Transportation Center (formerly Pennsylvania Station, Harrisburg or Harrisburg Central Railroad Station) is a large railway station and transportation hub in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

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Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Harrisburg (Pennsylvania German: Harrisbarrig) is the capital city of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and the county seat of Dauphin County.

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Haverford station

Haverford station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Haverford, Pennsylvania.

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Keystone Corridor

The Keystone Corridor is a 349-mile (562 km) railroad corridor between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that consists of two rail lines: Amtrak's Philadelphia-to-Harrisburg main line, which also hosts SEPTA's Paoli/Thorndale Line commuter rail service; and the Norfolk Southern Pittsburgh Line.

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Keystone Service

Amtrak's Keystone Service provides frequent regional rail passenger train service along the Amtrak Philadelphia to Harrisburg Main Line between the Harrisburg Transportation Center in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and 30th Street Station in Philadelphia.

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Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Lancaster County, (Pennsylvania German: Lengeschder Kaundi) sometimes nicknamed the Garden Spot of America or Pennsylvania Dutch Country, is a county located in the south central part of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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Lancaster station (Pennsylvania)

Lancaster is an Amtrak railroad station and a former Pennsylvania Railroad station in Lancaster, Lancaster County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.

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Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Lancaster is a city located in South Central Pennsylvania which serves as the seat of Pennsylvania's Lancaster County and one of the oldest inland towns in the United States.

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Lansdale/Doylestown Line

The Lansdale/Doylestown Line is a SEPTA Regional Rail line connecting Center City Philadelphia to Doylestown in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

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Long Island Rail Road

The Long Island Rail Road, legally known as the Long Island Rail Road Company and often abbreviated as the LIRR, is a commuter rail system in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of New York, stretching from Manhattan to the eastern tip of Suffolk County on Long Island.

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Main Line (Pennsylvania Railroad)

The Main Line of the Pennsylvania Railroad was a rail line in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, connecting Philadelphia with Pittsburgh via Harrisburg.

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Main Line of Public Works

The Main Line of Public Works was a package of legislation supporting a vision passed in 1826 — a collection of various long proposed canal and road projects that became a canal system (1824 proposals and studies) and later added railroads (amendments in 1828) designed to cross the breadth of Pennsylvania (mainly, southern) with the visionary goal of providing the best commercial means of transportation between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

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Malvern station (SEPTA)

Malvern station is a SEPTA Regional Rail and a former Amtrak station in Malvern, Pennsylvania.

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Malvern, Pennsylvania

Malvern is a borough in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Merion station

Merion station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station on the Paoli/Thorndale Line, located in Merion, Pennsylvania just outside of Philadelphia.

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Multiple unit

A multiple-unit train or simply multiple unit (MU) is a self-propelled train composed of one or more carriages joined together, which when coupled to another multiple unit can be controlled by a single driver.

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Narberth station (SEPTA)

Narberth station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Narberth, Pennsylvania.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York City Subway

The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system owned by the City of New York and leased to the New York City Transit Authority, a subsidiary agency of the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).

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NJ Transit

New Jersey Transit Corporation, branded as NJ Transit (NJT; stylized as NJ TRANSIT), is a state-owned public transportation system that serves the US state of New Jersey, along with portions of New York State and Pennsylvania.

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Northeast Corridor

The Northeast Corridor (NEC) is an electrified railroad line in the Northeast megalopolis of the United States.

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Overbrook station

Overbrook station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station on the Paoli/Thorndale Line, located near 63rd Street and City Line Avenue (US 1) in the Overbrook neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Overhead line

An overhead line or overhead wire is used to transmit electrical energy to trams, trolleybuses or trains.

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Paoli station

Paoli station is a passenger rail station located in the western suburbs of Philadelphia at 13 Lancaster Avenue (US 30), Paoli, Pennsylvania.

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Paoli, Pennsylvania

Paoli is a census-designated place in Chester County near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Parkesburg station

Parkesburg is an Amtrak train station located between Lancaster and Philadelphia at West First Avenue and South Culvert Street in Parkesburg, Pennsylvania.

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Pennsylvania Department of Transportation

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) oversees transportation issues in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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Pennsylvania Railroad

The Pennsylvania Railroad (or Pennsylvania Railroad Company and also known as the "Pennsy") was an American Class I railroad that was established in 1846 and was headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Pennsylvanian (train)

The Pennsylvanian is a daily daytime Amtrak train running between New York and Pittsburgh via Philadelphia.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Philadelphia Main Line

The Philadelphia Main Line, known simply as the Main Line, is an informally delineated historical and social region of suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Philadelphia to Harrisburg Main Line

The Philadelphia to Harrisburg Main Line is a rail line owned and operated by Amtrak in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.

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Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County.

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Positive train control

Positive train control (PTC) is a system of functional requirements for monitoring and controlling train movements and is a type of train protection system.

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PRR MP54

The Pennsylvania Railroad's MP54 was a class of electric multiple unit railcars.

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Radnor station (SEPTA Regional Rail)

Radnor station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Radnor, Pennsylvania.

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Rosemont station (SEPTA)

Rosemont station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Rosemont, Pennsylvania.

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SEPTA

The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) is a regional public transportation authority that operates bus, subway / elevated rail line, commuter and light rail line, and electric trolleybus services to nearly 4 million people in five counties in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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SEPTA Regional Rail

The SEPTA Regional Rail system is a commuter rail network serving the Philadelphia Metropolitan area.

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Silverliner

Silverliner is the name given to a series of electric multiple unit railcars in commuter rail service in the Philadelphia area since 1958.

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St. Davids station

St.

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Strafford station

Strafford station is a commuter rail station located in the western suburbs of Philadelphia at Old Eagle School Road and Crestline Road.

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Suburban Station

Suburban Station is an art deco office building and underground commuter rail station in Penn Center, Philadelphia.

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Temple University station

Temple University station is an above-ground SEPTA Regional Rail station located at the eastern edge of the Temple University campus at 915 West Berks Street between 9th and 10th Streets, in the Cecil B. Moore section of Lower North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Third rail

A third rail is a method of providing electric power to a railway locomotive or train, through a semi-continuous rigid conductor placed alongside or between the rails of a railway track.

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Thorndale station (SEPTA)

Thorndale station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Thorndale, Pennsylvania.

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Villanova station (SEPTA Regional Rail)

Villanova station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station on the campus of Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania.

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Wayne station

Wayne station is a commuter rail station located in the western suburbs of Philadelphia at North Wayne Avenue & West Avenue in Wayne, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.

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Whitford station

Whitford station is a commuter rail and former intercity passenger rail station located in the western suburbs of Philadelphia at South Whitford Road and Spackman Lane, Exton, Pennsylvania.

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Wynnewood station

Wynnewood station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.

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30th Street Station

30th Street Station is the main railroad station of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and one of the seven stations in the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority's (SEPTA) Center City fare zone.

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52nd Street station (SEPTA Regional Rail)

52nd Street is a closed train station that was located at the intersection of North 52nd Street & Landsdowne Avenue (just north of Lancaster Avenue (US-30)) in the West Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paoli/Thorndale_Line

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