Woodmont station is located on Byberry road, just below Heaton Road. The station was closed sometime around 1965, and is just below Norfolk Southern's active Morrisville line. The former Woodmont station was located in Lower Moreland Township, Huntingdon Valley. In 2006, a large single family home development was opened adjacent from the Woodmont train station, which closed in 1966. "Woodmont is inspired by our area’s most admired communities: Doylestown, New Hope, Chestnut Hill, and Wayne"--all communities with SEPTA train service. Jason Duckworth and the Arcadia Land Company named the development "Woodmont", and paid tribute to the Reading Company in naming the streets after the railroad, almost on queue with the proposed reopening of the rail line. A Woodmont rail station would benefit nearby residents who are unable to access the already constrained Hatboro and Forrest Hills Stations. Additionally, reverse commuters would now be able to ride to jobs at the Mason's Mill Business park, directly across from the proposed rail station. With over 20,000 cars using this section of Byberry Road every day, the reopening of the R8 Newtown line will reduce or eliminate the need to extend the Woodhaven expressway through this area as it was originally intended to connect to the Pennsylvania Turnpike at Willow Grove. Property values in the Woodmont development will rise from the current lows caused by the real estate crash of 2008 as this community will become fully transit oriented with the new station.

Quick Facts

Municipality: Lower Moreland Township, Huntingdon Valley (tracks serve as border between Upper Moreland & Lower Moreland. New station may be located on either side of tracks.
County: Montgomery
Projected Daily Ridership: 600
Train time to Suburban Station: 40 minutes

Photos

Woodmont Station is on Byberry Road, and is next to the new transit-oriented development built by NV Homes in 2007, called "Woodmont".

The new Woodmont housing development is already next to a active railroad. Norfolk Southern's Morrisville Line which sees 8 to 10 freight trains 7 days per week. SEPTA's new Silverliner V cars are much quieter and less intrusive and is also further from these new homes than the Norfolk Southern Railroad.

Looking towards Southampton & Newtown. To the right of this photos is a now completed single family home development consisting of high-end housing, meaning a market would exist for commuting to high end jobs in the office towers in center city. There will be no homes built directly along the rail line due to a water retention basin between "Reading Way" and the tracks.

This signal box controlled the grade crossing protection on Byberry Road. Cantalievered signals were installed in the late 1980s as part of a FTA grant to SEPTA. The signal towers remained until about 2004 when they were removed for use elsewhere on the SEPTA system.
Note the housing complex in the background. This line will attract many riders at a "Woodmont Station" without a single parking spot as Woodmont was built as a walkable community.

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