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The SEPTA West Chester Line: Of Ambition and Reality | How We Get Around Philly Episode 1

It may be just under 10 miles, but it has quite the story to tell... If you ride SEPTA's Media/Wawa line out of Philadelphia to the end of the line at the (kind-of) brand new Wawa station, you may notice that the tracks keep going into the woods beyond. That line used to go all the way to the town of West Chester, Pennsylvania until 1986, and in the time since then, the effort to preserve the line, its use as a tourist railroad, and the tale of seeking to restore passenger service on the line from West Chester to Philadelphia is one that is emblematic of the struggle with restoring good passenger rail and public transit services to towns and cities that lost it and would love to have it back. It’s a tale that is a microcosm of the history of passenger trains in the United States, one of ambition being checked by reality, of sentimentality and practicality, and of off the wall ideas with grandiose ambition. It is a tale I think deserves to be told regarding bringing back passenger trains in America, and ultimately holds the hope that one day, they can return to the places that missed them. Resources: Delaware Valley Regional Planning Committee (DVRPC)'s 2011 report on ridership potential of a restored West Chester Line: https://www.dvrpc.org/reports/10036.pdf West Chester Borough Council Ad-Hock Committee to Reestablish Rail Service to West Chester's 2015 report on line and service restoration: https://west-chester.com/DocumentCent... PennDOT's Feasibility Study of the West Chester Line: https://west-chester.com/DocumentCent... West Chester Borough Council Ad-Hock Committee to Reestablish Rail Service to West Chester's 2022 report on introducing the Pop-Up Metro service: https://west-chester.com/DocumentCent... SEPTA's Reimagining Regional Rail document: https://planning.septa.org/wp-content... Videos mentioned: Alex Davis's video on Franklin Station, the housing development near Wawa Station:    • Why You Can't Walk to America's Newes...   Ruairidh MacVeigh's video on the rise and fall of Penn Central:    • The Rise and Fall of the Penn Central   Worldwide Railfan's video on the problems with battery electric trains:    • Battery-Electric Locomotives DON’T Wo...