Bristol - (SEPTA Trenton Line)

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;

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