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Paoli
Station statistics
Address	North Valley Road & Lancaster Avenue Paoli, PA 19301
Lines	Amtrak: Keystone Service Pennsylvanian SEPTA: R5 line
Other information
Code	PAO
Owned by	Amtrak
Traffic
Passengers (2006)	80,936 16.1%

Paoli Station is a commuter rail station located in the western suburbs of Philadelphia at 13 Lancaster Ave, Paoli, Pennsylvania 19301 [1]. It is served by Amtrak's Keystone Service and Pennsylvanian trains, and most SEPTA R5 Paoli-Thorndale trains with the exception of the Bryn Mawr locals.

The station has a waiting room and a coffee shop.

The SEPTA ticket office at this station is open weekdays 5:10 a.m. to 6:35 p.m. excluding holidays, Saturdays 7:50 a.m. to 3:40 p.m., and Sundays 8:25 a.m. to 3:40 p.m.. The station waiting room is open during these times.

The Amtrak ticket window is open Monday through Friday 6:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. An Amtrak QuikTrak machine is available when the station is open. There are 176 parking spaces at the station.

This station is in fare zone 4, and is 19.9 track miles from Suburban Station. In 2003, the average total SEPTA R5 weekday boardings at this station was 1,462. In Federal Fiscal Year 2006, there were 80,936 Amtrak boardings plus alightings at this station. Paoli is the 5th busiest Amtrak station in Pennsylvania and 4th busiest in the state serviced by the Keystone Service [2]. Additionally, SEPTA bus routes 133, 204, and 206 also serve the station.

Plans have been drawn up for an expanded Paoli station on the site of the former Pennsylvania Railroad/Amtrak/SEPTA train shed and repair facility in Paoli. This facility was contaminated with PCB's; environmental remediation of the shed property where the future station may stand was completed in 2005 as a Superfund project.

External links

• Amtrak - Stations - Paoli, PA

• Ridership figures, FY 2004
• Ridership figures, FY 2005
• Ridership figures, FY 2006

• SEPTA - Paoli Station
• Paoli Transportation Center plan.

• Maps and aerial photos for 40°′″N 75°′″W / 40.041921, -75.48415Coordinates: 40°′″N 75°′″W / 40.041921, -75.48415
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  • Topographic maps from TopoZone or TerraServer-USA

Previous station		SEPTA		Next station
Malvern toward Thorndale		R5 line		Daylesford toward Doylestown
Previous station		Amtrak		Next station
Exton toward Harrisburg		Keystone Service		Ardmore toward New York
Lancaster toward Pittsburgh		Pennsylvanian		Philadelphia toward New York

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