Leamy Avenue station

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Leamy Avenue
General information
LocationNear Leamy Avenue & Rolling Road
Springfield, Pennsylvania.
Coordinates39°55′35″N 75°20′14″W / 39.9263°N 75.3372°W / 39.9263; -75.3372
Owned bySEPTA
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
Construction
Structure typeOpen stucco shelter (eastbound)
Open acrylic glass shelter (westbound)
History
ElectrifiedOverhead lines
Services
Preceding station SEPTA Following station
Woodland Avenue Route 101 Saxer Avenue
Future services (2024)
Preceding station SEPTA Metro Following station
Woodland Avenue Saxer Avenue
Location
Map

Leamy Avenue station is a station on the Media–Sharon Hill Line in Springfield Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. It is officially located near Leamy Avenue and Rolling Road, but is directly on the southeast corner of these streets.

Trolleys arriving at this station travel between 69th Street Transportation Center in Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania and Orange Street in Media, Pennsylvania. The station contains a green and white stucco shed with a roof on the south side of the tracks where people can go inside when it is raining, and a plexiglas and aluminum bus shelter on the north side of the tracks. A school is located on the northwest side of the tracks. At this location, the tracks run at a northeast-to-southwest direction. Leamy Avenue itself is divided as "West Leamy Avenue" northwest of the grade crossing, and "East Leamy Avenue" southeast of the grade crossing. Southwest of this stop tracks narrow down from two to one until the Route 101 line approaches the Pine Ridge station.

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