Chester Transportation Center
Eddystone is a simple intermediate stop on the Northeast Corridor, and Wilmington/Newark Line. The station consists of two low-level side platforms for four-track Northeast Corridor. The station is located on a grassy embankment with the platforms beginning just south of the railroad's bridges over Saville Avenue and continuing to run south.
Saville Avenue provides the pedestrian connection between the two platforms, although each platform has a single staircase down from it that leads back down the embankment and not directly to Saville Avenue. The staircase from the Delaware-bound platform leads back and down to East 7th Street, while the staircase from the Philadelphia-bound platform leads back and down to a tiny parking lot with just 12 spaces (that gets wider for a cul-de-sac style turnaround) with its only entrance from Saville Avenue.
Amenities for waiting passengers are a shelter on each platform. The Philadelphia-bound one is a modern glass block shelter with a slightly gabled roof covering a single bench. These are SEPTA Regional Rails “modern” standard for shelters. The Delaware-bound platform contains a single, smaller three-sided shelter with two small benches facing each other perpendicular to the tracks. It has a gabled roof and a cream colored back wall with two advertisements on it.
Photos 1-12: September 13, 2011; 13-63: September 4, 2024;
