Spring Garden (SEPTA Broad–Ridge Spur station)

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Spring Garden
SEPTA rapid transit station
Station statistics
Address Spring Garden Street and Ridge Avenue
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Lines
Broad Street Line (Ridge Spur)
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 2
Other information
Opened December 21, 1932
Closed 1991 (due to crime and low ridership)
Owned by SEPTA
Services
Preceding station   SEPTA   Following station
toward 8th Street
 Broad Street Line
toward Fern Rock

Spring Garden was a station on SEPTA's Broad–Ridge Spur, located at Spring Garden Street and Ridge Avenue. The station was opened on December 21, 1932 between Fairmount and Chinatown stations, and eventually closed in 1991. When it first opened, the station was a busy commuter station filled with passengers each day, however, by the 1980s, the station became very run down. Ridership drastically dropped at the time, and the neighboring area around Spring Garden Street became inundated with drug traffic and other crime. To avoid any potential threats of criminal activity, SEPTA closed down the station and sealed off the entrances with galvanized metal, redirecting passengers to the Spring Garden station at Broad Street, only two blocks west.

Today, the former Spring Garden station can only be seen from Broad–Ridge Spur trains traveling between Fairmount and Chinatown stations. The station is dimly lit by only four fluorescent bulbs, and is filled with trash and layers of graffiti that has been developed over the years.

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