Today it is owned by SEPTA and hosts the Chestnut Hill East Line commuter rail service.

The line runs roughly parallel to the Chestnut Hill West Branch, formerly of the Pennsylvania Railroad.

[1] Plans to build north from Germantown to Norristown were abandoned in favor a different route that branched off the existing line at what is now 16th Street Junction.

[10] With the Reading Company's final bankruptcy in 1976, the Chestnut Hill Branch was conveyed to Conrail and then SEPTA.

[11] SEPTA activated positive train control on the Chestnut Hill East Branch on July 25, 2016.