Collingswood
Collingswood is an elevated PATCO High Speed Line station, with a single island platform and canopy that covers nearly the entire platform. In the middle of the platform two staircases (one with an up-escalator) lead down to a small intermediate landing before a single staircase leads down to a small fare control area near at street-level nestled under the platform. Here are faregates along with a closed ticket window. About 6 steps then lead down to two entrances along Atlantic Avenue across from Stiles Avenue that is split into two sections by the station house.
An elevator has been retrofitted since I visited the station leading down from the island platform to a small extension of the station house. It has a tower that extends above the canopy, and says PATCO on top of it, and leads to the same fare control area. A ramp was also added in a small building extension to one end of the station house. This elevator opened on Tuesday, April 16, 2019 as part of a project to add 8 elevators to make the remaining 6 non-accessible PATCO stations accessible by 2022.
The station has 4 different parking lots all with free parking. The smallest lot is nestled under the tracks, and additional parking sprawling out in the neighborhood, all north of station, along South Atlantic Avenue, between Lees Avenue and Homestead Avenue, with Stiles and Billson Avenue running between the different parking lots, cutting them into sections.
Art in Transit: Waterlines Collingswood by Stacy Levy, there are enlarged sculptures of microorganisms and a map of the ecology and waterbodies around Collingswood on the staircases off the station platform.
Photos 1-25: September 15, 2011
Looking up at a train running above the streets of Collingswood
The blur of a two-car train passing above on the concrete embankment
A sign for PATCO Collingswood on a nearby street
Looking up at a 4 car train on the lines right-of-way
A PATCO train on the concrete embankment that becomes an arial structure at the station
Looking-up (under a tree) at one end of the Collingswood station platform from the street, notice the sign facing out at the end of the canopy
Approaching the station entrance
The older bridge PATCO logo and silver Collingswood lettering on the side of the station house
Another view of the side of the simple concrete station house nestled under the concrete elevated guideway above
A street sign for PATCO Collingswood station tucked beneath the station above
A Collingswood Station PATCO sign retrofitted with the new P logo
Approaching one set of doors into the station
Entering the small fare control area and closed ticket window
Signs for the concourse improvement projects, brightening the fare control areas for PATCO in Philadelphia
An information phone with TTY (on both sides of the fare control area, since PATCO is a distance based tap/swipe your farecard when you both enter and leave) and the fare gates
The four faregates into the system under a 1960s clock
Up a short flight of stairs to an intermediate landing that splits for a staircase/up escaltor or just a staircase up to the platform above
Up the stairs to the platform
Approaching the doors (with frosted glass side walls) out to the island platform
Last Updated: 2 April, 2021
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