The perfect way to get to downtown Philly Drop off or pick…read moreup location if needed -Plenty of free parking -can buy tickets online -Or use the Amtrak App to keep your ticket handy -Hassle-free travel Final note: ask about any discounts for seniors or with AARP or AAA if you are a member.

I came here with my friend who used to work in trains. Boy oh boy was that ever a train station. It…read morehas all the best amenities: benches, signs, squirrels, tracks, and even lights! It has ruined all other train stations for me. This station both literally and symbolically saved my life. It would be hard to track down another place like this, exSept-a... nothing! On that train of thought, the one complaint I have is that there is no food to chew chew.

Chestnut Hill West is a very nice station compared to other Septa stations. There is covered…read moreseating and an inside waiting area, plenty of parking, and the station is accessible. Although the trains generally leave on time, Septa uses the extra space here for equipment storage, so every once and a while the train will be delayed by twenty minutes or more. The regular crew at this location is consistently nice and know what they're doing. For the most part if you smile and try to be friendly, you'll make their day and your commute much nicer. The best part about this station is that it is just steps away from beautiful Chestnut Hill so it is a great regional rail destination.

I like the Chestnut Hill West Station for a number of reasons…read more.. 1. It is the first/last station on the line. You can arrive prior to your train's departure and wait INSIDE of the train instead of waiting out in the elements (although, yes, there is covered outdoor seating as well, if your train has not yet arrived). You also get your choice of seats. 2. It is extremely proximate to two primo coffee shops (Starbucks & Chestnut Hill Coffee Shop). A nice hot cup-o-joe is good company on the quiet ride car. 3. Conductors are generally pretty nice. There is still the oddball who asks you for your pass three times before you get to center city, but for the most part they are pleasant and reasonable. 4. You rarely see an old POS train run on this line anymore. The trains are in decent condition and kept fairly clean. 5. It's a cool old fashioned train station! I took a star away because, face it, it's still SEPTA. They can be quite heartless on the days that you're running late, soaked to the bone, screaming, crying, etc. SEPTA runs on SEPTA's schedule only. This means that whether they are 35 minutes late or 2 minutes early- they are still on time, per SEPTA. Better make it because those doors never reopen for anyone!

It's a good station -outdated but still good. Elcys is attached, with Green Mountain coffee and…read morebreakfast offerings. Lots of community information on the bulletin boards. Wish there was more parking though. Get here before 7am if you don't want to park at the very far end of the lot! The ticket booth is only open until 1pm which is silly. But there is plenty of seating outside and inside and a bathroom as well. If you need a ride there not enough ubers or taxis close by, so call 15 minutes ahead. Three train lines run through here so it is convenient!

An above average hub for the suburbs. Located in glenside it has many options around it if you are…read morewaiting for a connecting train. Elcy's cafe is a nice little touch to the place. There aren't any vagabonds around here and it's usually pretty clean. If you pay for parking I HIGHLY advise you to get here before 645am. Otherwise you might miss your train.

Used to ride regional rail every weekday when I lived in the area. Rarely ever had problems. This…read moretime I was town visiting for a work conference. So this was the first time using the Chest Nut Hill West Line and Queen Ln Station. Opening hours state 0630, but the station office did not open until 0639 and when you're train is at 0641 (and on time) this can be quite troubling. Unlike the Norristown Line which I used to ride every weekend, on the Chest Nut Hill West Line when I asked the conductor how to transfer at 30th street for University City he was very rude and told me that I need a ticket but didn't understand because I had just given him my ticket. So he proceeded to tell me that I needed to tell him to give me my ticket back because he "could not read my mind". It's notable to say that this may have been just a bad day for a few individuals but I would hate a visitor of our beautiful city have to deal with this as their first impression.

My mom lives in AC, so occasionally, instead of driving, we'll take the NJ Transit train over there…read moreif the weather is particularly bad or the roads super trafficky. Cost wise, if you are traveling solo, it is cheaper than driving with gas and tolls. If there's a few of us, we just consider it the cost of adventure travel. The train station is a bit tricky to find, as it's behind the big anchor stores. Parking overnight is OK; of course, park under a light, just in case. You buy your ticket at the machine, which is located inside a shelter, also useful if it's rainy, hot, humid, snowing, thundering, etc. Go online to check the schedule if you are smart so you don't have too long of a wait til the train arrives. Once you have your ticket, keep it on you and stick it on the little ticket slot on top of your seat. The conductor will swing by at some point before you arrive at your destination to punch it.

Great for trains to and from Atlantic City and way better than driving through shore traffic. You…read morecan take your bike on at any time, which is pretty nice too.

Rode the Northeast Corridor Amtrak Train from this station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to BWI…read moreStation in Baltimore, Maryland for Juneteenth Weekend 2026, which was the Weekend of June 19th 2026. This station aside from the restrooms, is in pretty good condition and has decent accomodations. Also, the train ride from Philadelphia to Baltimore was pretty comfortable and uneventful. I defintely would take this trip again from this particular location.

BLUF: A true transportation hub for Amtrak, SEPTA and NJ Transit in a lovely historical, circa…read more1930s art deco building. I am always so happy to see historical buildings saved, especially when it comes to trains. The demolition of NYC's Penn Station for Madison Square Garden is a travesty that hurts my heart so I appreciate that this station, which was once a station for the Pennsylvania Railroad, is still in tact. However, the station is showing some wear and tear and would benefit from a facelift. With Philly hosting FIFA World Class Soccer, the MLB All Star games and other events for America's 250th, I thought maybe there would be some renovations to the station. Unfortunately, the food court is closed so the only options for food and drinks are Dunkin Donuts and a newspaper stand. There is an ongoing renovation but I can't tell exactly what has been done. i will say, it was nice to see the station from about a block away - the exterior is lovely. The trains all board under the station so it's convenient that you don't have to walk too far to get on your train like you would at a stub-end station. For those needing assistance, Amtrak offers a "Red Cap" service. Getting down the escalators and down the platform can be a bit of survival of the fittest so asking for help will get you escorted down the elevator to your train car without battling the masses. Red Cap will also take care of your bags. The waiting room is large as are the bathrooms. They also have some nice exhibits about the station and its artwork. I'm looking forward to returning to see how the renovations turned out. I am hoping that the food court will reopen and maybe even offer some local eateries.

The trains start blowing horns at 4am. Very excessive. Very disturbing to the entire neighborhoodread more

This is one of the best train stations in the entire SEPTA system. I specifically looked for an…read moreapartment next to this station, because it is such an awesome station to be located near. I think this station is an incredible asset to the neighborhood. It was a major selling point of the apartment my girlfriend and I chose, and living next to it is a huge improvement in my quality of life. Train service here is excellent. Minus a few quirks, the trains generally run often enough that if you're headed into Philly, you can just show up at this station without checking a schedule, and you'll be guaranteed to get something usually with at most a 15 minute wait. Pick up a Glenside Combined schedule if you're only concerned about the trains going between this station and center city. (Glenside is one stop beyond this one) Going farther out into the suburbs, you get lots of options: the Doylestown, Warminster, and West Trenton lines all go through this station, and it's the last station before these three lines fork off. But another huge asset of train travel is the direct trains you get going "out the other side" of center city. Once the Jenkintown lines get to center city, they turn into other lines and head out to various destinations, including (a) Airport (b) Paoli/Thorndale (The main line) (c) Media / Elywn Line (which goes through 49th street in West Philly, and Swarthmore) (d) Marcus Hook/Wilmington/Newark DE (SW suburbs into Delaware), and (e) Trenton Transit Center (NJ, this station, and not West Trenton, connects with NJ Transit to NYC) All this means that, with careful checking of the schedule, you can get direct trips from Jenkintown to all of these destinations. Pretty awesome if you ask me. Yet another perk of this station? Great ticket counter hours. The ticket counter here sells all sorts of passes and tokens, and has very reasonable hours (open near rush hour weekdays and most of the day saturday), among the best hours of any station in the system. Yet another perk? You can often get a cab here at night, getting off the train on the Jenkintown side. Not quite guaranteed, but I've seen cabs waiting here more often than other suburban locations, where you usually need to call a cab. It keeps getting better. The SEPTA station provides a convenient pedestrian underpass while the Greenwood ave. bridge is under construction. An extra perk! And it's adjacent to the beautiful Ralph Morgan Park in Wynwood, a little greenway along Tacony creek with paved paths along both sides of the creek...saves you walking along the road about a third of the way to Glenside, and just a pleasant place to take a stroll. The only sad thing about this station...it used to have both a restaurant and a coffee shop in it...and both closed. This makes me really sad. I hope that some day, both can re-open because I feel like having a restaurant and a coffee shop in an awesome SEPTA station like this is just such a great idea, and again, a huge asset to the neighborhood. The closest cafe/restaurant is Linda Jean's, which I like very much, and recommend checking out (it's on the Wyncote side, on Greenwood ave.) if you haven't. But seriously this station is awesome!

We ended up at this SEPTA train station unexpectedly as our day ran late and we missed the train at…read morethe Penllyn Station. Our final destination was Suburban Station in Philadelphia. Conshohocken Station features a small parking lot, ticket kiosks and covered seating areas. It was around 9pm on a weeknight so it wasn't too busy, but as the departure time neared, a small crowd formed. The area felt isolated but safe with no questionable souls lurking. OVERALL: Clean facilities that got the job done.

The "station" is hardly that. Technically it's not a building but a trailer on the West side of…read morethe tracks, on the inbound side to Center City, Philadelphia. It is only open in the morning. At other times there is no place to take shelter from the elements other than a small bench enclosure beside the station, a.k.a shack, or standing under a nearby bridge, which is what most people do. The "service" is a rail link whose only train is SEPTA's so called "Norristown regional rail" line. Technically the line is not regional since it's stops are too close together. it's really a mostly outdoor subway sort of like the F train in NYC but is three times as expensive and it doesn't go nearly as far. The nominal time to or from the station and Center City is 40 minutes. The nominal driving time, even considering i76 traffic, is less than 30 minutes. There are a few "express trains" that make the journey in a little less time. However so called reverse commuters who work in rapidly expanding Conshohocken and travel from Philadelphia have no express service. In rush hour some trains run an abysmal 40 minutes apart. In non-rush hour they run with far less frequency. The parking is very small but drivers can effectively park for free in the corporate building garages, though marginally legal. There was a proposal a few years ago by the Delaware Valley Planning Commission to build a real station with a parking structure, but the proposal was considered to costly and never realized. Sadly the reality is many potential riders don't use the system because of both the poor facility and inefficient service. Essentially all of my coworkers have elected to drive, and I work in the building right next to the station.