The Media/Wawa Line is a SEPTA Regional Rail service that runs from Center City Philadelphia west to Wawa in Delaware County. It uses the West Chester Branch, which connects with the SEPTA Main Line at 30th Street Station. Under the Pennsylvania Railroad, service continued to West Chester, Pennsylvania. On September 19, 1986, however, service was truncated to Elwyn.
SEPTA Regional Rail train at 49th Street station on what was then the Media/Elwyn Line in 2011
Elwyn, terminus of the line from 1986 to 2022
Wawa station in August 2022
The SEPTA Regional Rail system is a commuter rail network owned by SEPTA and serving the Philadelphia metropolitan area. The system has 13 branches and more than 150 active stations in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, its suburbs and satellite towns and cities. It is the sixth-busiest commuter railroad in the United States, and the busiest outside of the New York, Chicago, and Boston metropolitan areas. In 2016, the Regional Rail system had an average of 132,000 daily riders and 118,800 daily riders as of 2019.
A SEPTA Regional Rail train at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia
SEPTA Silverliner IV at Fern Rock Transportation Center in Philadelphia
A SEPTA Silverliner V approaching Hatboro station
A SEPTA ACS-64 910 leads a train out of Hatboro station
