June 23, 1881 The Pennsylvania Railroad Company are now engaged in building four tracks from Philadelphia to Malvern. The two on the south side of the road will be used exclusively for freight trains, and the two on the north side for passengers. This will necessitate the removal of some of the stations on the road, two of them being very fine ones – the one at Bryn Mawr and the other at Ardmore.

Daily Local News (West Chester)

1883 - During this year the third track on the Philadelphia Division was extended from Beaumont to Devon … The alignment was greatly improved … at Eagle.
Source: Maintenance of Way Report; Thirty-Seventh Annual Report, Pennsylvania Railroad Company, January 1, 1884.