Select Page

Bristol station (SEPTA)

Bristol station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Bristol, Pennsylvania. It is located at Beaver and Garden Streets, and serves the Trenton Line. It was built in 1911 by the Pennsylvania Railroad as a replacement for an earlier station on Pond and Market Streets.[5] As with many Pennsylvania Railroad stations, the station became a Penn Central station once the New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroads merged in 1968. Amtrak took over intercity railroad service in 1971, but Penn Central continued to serve commuters between Philadelphia and Trenton. Conrail took over commuter service in 1976, and turned the Trenton Line over to SEPTA Regional Rail in 1983.

The station is in zone 4 on the SEPTA Trenton Line, on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor and at one time was an Amtrak station as well.[6] In 2004, this station saw 277 boardings on an average weekday. Amtrak does not stop at this station.

Incidents

Three members of a family were struck and killed near the station by an Amtrak train on April 3, 2025. The Bucks County coroner ruled that one of the victims died by suicide. No train passengers or crew were injured.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Trenton Line Timetable" (PDF). Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority. April 16, 2023. Retrieved July 11, 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Croydon Station". Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority. Retrieved July 11, 2023.
  3. ^ "Electric Trains to Run on Phila.-Trenton Line". The Evening Courier. Camden, New Jersey. June 23, 1930. p. 6. Retrieved January 31, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  4. ^ "Fiscal Year 2021 Service Plan Update". SEPTA. June 2020. p. 24. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
  5. ^ West, Dan. "Existing Railroad Stations in Bucks County, Pennsylvania".
  6. ^ "Amtrak Timetables". Amtrak. May 1, 1971 – via Timetables.org.
  7. ^ Ignudo, Tom; DeMentri, Nikki; Hussein, Atheer; McHugh, Jim; Lewis, Siafa (April 5, 2025). "3 family members hit, killed by Amtrak train in Pennsylvania; service reopens between Philadelphia, New York". New York City, New York: CBS News. Retrieved April 11, 2025.

Media related to Bristol (SEPTA station) at Wikimedia Commons