Bristolis a SEPTA Trenton Line Station is located on a high embankment above nearby streets. It is most notable for the historic stone depot built in 1911 that is today just below the current simple station because of grade-separation projects after 1911. This stone depot is not in railroad use but is a day care center, and is just below the Trenton-bound platform, not on the Philadelphia-bound side. Amtrak’s original timetables in 1971 show Bristol as an Amtrak stop on at least one train between Philadelphia and New York. This stop is gone by the 1972 timetable.
The current station consist of two elevated low-level platforms on each side of the four-track Northeast Corridor. The platforms are completely bare except for a simple canopy structure that covers the area for less than the length of a commuter rail car, and includes one metal bench on each platform. This canopy structure extends over a single covered staircase, with windscreens behind it, that winds its way down with a few intermediate landings from each platform to street-level where a pedestrian tunnel at the same level as the street connects the two platforms.
The Philadelphia-bound staircase leads down, clad in stone at its bottom to Garden Street parallel to the tracks. The Trenton-bound platform ends at Washington Street that ends at the tracks and provides the southwestern entrance to the station’s 294 space parking lot. This large parking lot is bounded by Prospect Street running
Photos 1-48: March 27, 2013;
Stepping off a Trenton-bound train, the historic stone depot is below the railway embankment
Silverline IV #303 leaves Bristol
Looking out at the parking lot from the Trenton-bound platform
A bench and the covered staircase off the Trenton-bound platform
The historic stone station house built in 1911
One side of the 1911 stone station house with a gabled roof
Streetside of the stone station house turned daycare center
The white trusses of the gable roof of the stone station house
Looking out to the entirety of the elevated on an embankment Trenton-bound platform
A door into the stone station house
Sign for the daycare center in the side of the station house
The stone station, house, pedestrian tunnel and platform in the distance
Looking east at the depot and station platform
Sign for the Bristol Station, platform and historic depot from Beaver Street
Sign for the Station from Beaver and Garden Street. The Philadelphia-bound platform is visible from here
Looking up the embankment at the end of the Philadelphia-bound platform
Signs on the stone of the sides of the elevated structure around the staircases up to the Philadelphia-bound platform
Looking up Garden Street at the station on the embankment
Looking up at a five car Philadelphia-bound train of Siverliner Vs approaching the station
Last Updated: December 1, 2024
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