Darby is the first stop after Center City on the Wilmington/Newark Line, a good 4 miles from the University City Station and the longest gap between stations on this line not in Delaware. The station is simple and consists of two low-level side platforms for the four tracked Northeast Corridor. These platforms begin just south of the South 4th Street bridge over the railroad line and end shortly before the underpass beneath the railroad of South 5th Street. These two streets provide all access to the Philadelphia-bound platform. There is a longer staircase up to South 5th Street near the northern end of this platform. A sidewalk leads beyond the southern end of the platform to a steep ramp down to the underpass of South 5th Street. This platform has a simple brick waiting shelter with a doorway and some open windows for waiting passengers.
The Delaware-bound platform contains a small parking lot with 22 parking spaces. A single silver bus shelter plus an exposed bench provides the only amenities for waiting passengers. The connections to the 4th Street overpass, and 5th Street underpass and set back from this platform on the opposite side or beyond the parking lot. There are a few steps up to 4th Street at the dead-end of Pine Street, with access to 5th street via a path from the edge of the parking lot down to the intersection of 5th Street and Pine Street.
Photos 1-25: October 23, 2013;
The dead end of Pine Street because of the embankment of 4th Street rising onto its overpass
Darby Station totem sign at the dead end at a staircase of 4th Street, just above the Delaware-bound platform
Looking over the grass beyond the Delaware-bound platform and long staircase to the Philadelphia-bound platform
Two pathways from 4th Street, parking or Delaware-bound platform
Lots of wooden boarding crossings, and some simple wooden steps for boarding trains run along the Deleware-bound platform
Looking across to a modern Darby platform sign on the Trains to Center City Philadelphia platform
Looking across to the staircase to leave the Philadelphia-bound platform up to 4th Street
This boarding block has a tactile warning strip, the rest of the edge of the platform is decaying
Looking across to the shelter on the Philadelphia-bound platform
Looking down to the one bench and shelter on the Delaware-bound platform
The open air bench and trash can, plus the tactile boarding
The bridge of 4th Street in the distance
Looking into the slightly more substantial shelter on the Philadelphia-bound platform
A sign in front of the parking lot on the Darby Trains to Wilmington/Newark-bound platform
The modern (with a bench bus shelter) and older brick shelter
The path down to the underpass of 5th Street from the Delaware-bound platform
A Darby Trains to Wilmington/Newark sign
Last Updated: December 21, 2024
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