Sharon Hill
Curtis Park is a stop with two low-level side platforms for the four track Northeast Corridor. These begin just north of overpass of Calcon Hook Road and head north (although no access is from his bridge). The station only receives service from Wilmington/Newark Line trains, all Amtrak trains skip the station. These two side platforms each have identical and parallel 300-foot-long canopy structures. These each contain slightly angled support beams, and roofs that angle back from the station tracks. These date from when the station opened in 1949.
The Philadelphia-bound platform contains a boarded up single-level with a flat roof held up by white bricks station house. Within this area surrounded by a couple brick walls but fully outdoors is a staircase leads down to a pedestrian tunnel. This tunnel connects to a staircase up and back to the surface along the Wilmington/Newark-bound platform. This pedestrian tunnel provides a pedestrian connection for through pedestrian traffic along Oak Avenue. One section of this street dead ends, just above (at a higher elevation) the Wilmington/Newark-bound platform where a staircase with about 30 steps (starting high above the platform canopy) leads down to this platform and provides its only entrance except for the pedestrian tunnel.
Oak Avenue continues beyond the boarded-up station house on the Wilmington/Newark-bound side of the station at the same elevation as the station. This includes a small parking lot with 24 spaces along this platform.
Photos 1-57: October 23, 2013;
