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The Cynwyd Line is an active SEPTA Regional Rail line running from Center City Philadelphia to Cynwyd in Montgomery County. Originally known as the Ivy Ridge Branch, service was truncated on October 25, 1986 at its current terminus at Cynwyd. Track between Cynwyd and Ivy Ridge was dismantled between 2008 and 2010 for conversion as an interim rail trail, preventing service restoration for the foreseeable future.〔(cynwydtrail.org/ )〕 ==Route== The Cynwyd Line is the shortest and has the lowest ridership of all of the SEPTA Regional Rail lines. It was truncated on October 25, 1986 from Ivy Ridge to Cynwyd due to concerns about the concrete arch Pencoyd Viaduct over the Schuylkill River in the Manayunk section of the city. This bridge was shedding pieces of concrete due to spalling. Further investigation by Urban Engineers determined that the bridge was safe and only needed surface work to stop the spalling. In 1999, construction finished on a project to stabilize and refurbish the bridge, but train service did not resume as expected. Electrified service was opened between Philadelphia and Norristown (Haws Avenue) on June 20, 1930. Plans for electrification beyond Norristown, to Phoenixville, were not carried out. Passenger service ended between Manayunk and Norristown on October 29, 1960 and the line beyond Manayunk was de-electrified, although the pylons remain. Service was extended from Manayunk to Ivy Ridge, to serve a new park-and-ride lot, on October 26, 1980, but then curtailed to Cynwyd exactly six years later. The line to Norristown and Pottsville, Pennsylvania as a long-distance line, was largely abandoned after the formation of Conrail in 1976 (the right-of-way has since been converted to a multi-purpose trail). Since 2007, this route, similar to NJ Transit's Princeton Branch, is served by a single-car electric multiple unit train that departs from a terminal track in Suburban Station, stops at 30th Street Station, and continues along the Paoli/Thorndale Line as far as the 52nd Street Junction where it branches off on a single track line to Wynnefield Avenue in Philadelphia. It continues on to Bala station, on City Avenue (U.S. Route 1), and Cynwyd station, less than a mile northwest. No Cynwyd trains run entirely through the Center City tunnel. One can transfer between this train and others at Suburban Station to go to or from Market East station and former Reading RR points. In the late 1990s and up to 2003, SEPTA funded a study called the Schuylkill Valley Metro which included plans to extend both sides of the R6 line to Pottstown, Reading and Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. The project suffered a major setback when it was rejected by the FTA New Starts program, which cited doubts about the ridership projections and financing assumptions used by the study.〔(fta.dot.gov )〕 On October 29, 2010, the Cynwyd Line was where the Silverliner V rail cars made their first run in revenue service. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cynwyd Line」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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