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Coatesville Train Station
Owner/User: Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
Location: Coatesville, Pennsylvania
Design Statement: Bernardon is currently providing
architectural design service for the Coatesville Train Station.
The Coatesville Train Station will provide accessible rail
accommodations for the Keystone Service.
PennDOT’s initial station design solution incorporated a
midblock station tower on the north and south side of the
tracks that required a bridge over the rails and costly changes
to the existing catenary. Bernardon’s concept, “Destination
Station”, proposed an alternative to shift the station dollars of savings. As a result of Bernardon’s thoughtful design,
towers to an existing underutilized vehicular underpass wayfinding to the station is improved in the City of Coatesville,
and recommended the underpass be used exclusively as a and the underpass and pedestrian plaza knit the station into the
pedestrian way. urban context more sensitively.
The solution eliminated the need to construct the bridge over Documents are 100% complete and have been submitted for
the tracks and the catenary relocation resulting in millions of review.
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