It serves the Norristown High Speed Line and is located at Edgewood and Strathmore Roads, although SEPTA gives the address as Beechwood and Karakung Drives.
[1] It has the third highest boardings of Haverford Township stations, after Ardmore Junction and Penfield, taking 5 minutes to arrive at 69th Street Transportation Center.
[2][3] The Beechwood-Brookline station was pivotal in the development of the Beechwood and Brookline neighborhoods in Haverford Township, both of which are examples of early 20th century streetcar suburbs.
[7][8] Attractions of the park included a double wire act, a Venetian gondola, carrousel, roller coaster, merry-go-round, hippodrome, pony track, a "moving picture show", shooting gallery, miniature railway, double trapeze, acrobats and aerialists, and a circus of trained Scotch collie dogs.
[14] It was sold at auction on January 19, 1909, to a sole bidder who was "anxious to secure the property to save the expense of foreclosure proceedings".