Chester Transportation Center
Highland Avenue is a secondary station serving the city of Chester. It is a simple intermediate stop with two very short wooden low-level side platforms on an elevated embankment, on each side of the four track Northeast Corridor. The Wilmington-bound platform can board just one car and is about 70 feet long, while the Philadelphia-bound platform is 130 feet long (about a car and a half). Wooden crossing allow trains to also stop on the middle express track. These two platforms begin just after bridge over Highland Avenue and run west. The only passenger amenity is a single bus shelter on the Philadelphia-bound platform. Otherwise, the platforms have modern green railings (they had older decaying black railings on my first visit in 2013). These each lead down to a single staircase off the embankment towards a short walkway to Highland Avenue on the Delaware-bound platform, and down to a tiny 14 space parking lot from the Philadelphia-bound platform.
Photos 1-15: September 13, 2011; 16-72: September 4, 2024;
Silverline V #365 leaves to head south
Looking across the one wooden boarding board for the middle track
Heading down the steps off the Delaware-bound platform
A Highland Ave R2 sign on the grassy knoll below the embankment
The full extent of the Delaware-bound platform viewed from the street, the totem sign is missing
The Philadelphia-bound side of the Highland Avenue station, the platform on the steep embankment is clad in wood
The Welcome to SEPTA sign for the 14 parking spaces
A Highland Ave R2 sign below the wooden clad platform
Heading up the steps to the Philadelphia-bound platform
Looking down the very bare and short Philadelphia-bound platform
A Silverliner IV passes the station heading south as a train of Silverliner II approaches northbound
A train of Silverliner IIs approaches
Silverliner II #9010 prepares to enter the station
Passengers step off a train of Silverliner IVs at an open door
The open door Silverliner IV #409 going to Newark, DE stopping in the station
A modern Highland Avenue platform sign for Trains to Wilmington/Newark on newer green railings
The blurring of Silverliner IV leaving the station
A wide-angled view Looking across the station, the entirety of the Philadelphia-bound platform is visible
Last Updated: December 21, 2024
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