| Spring Garden SEPTA rapid transit station |
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Mezzanine Level at Spring Garden Station. This station is currently being renovated. |
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| Address | 500 North Broad Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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Broad Street Line Local
Broad Street Line Express
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| Connections | SEPTA City Buses | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 island platforms | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 4 | |||||||||||||||
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| Opened | September 1, 1928 | |||||||||||||||
| Electrified | Third rail (600 volts) | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | SEPTA | |||||||||||||||
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Spring Garden is a subway station on SEPTA's Broad Street Subway in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is an express station with four tracks and two island platforms. Spring Garden is the northernmost station in Center City, serving Community College of Philadelphia, the School District of Philadelphia Building, the Inquirer Building (home of Philadelphia newspapers the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News), Ben Franklin High School and miscellaneous office buildings, restaurants, and clubs. The Philadelphia Museum of Art is ten blocks west of the station while the Northern Liberties neighborhood lies approximately eight blocks east. Near this station is Masterman Laboratory & Demonstration School. There are numerous restaurants and shops nearby which made this a very busy station.
Spring Garden station is the seventh busiest station on the Broad Street Line, with 10,000 riders a day.[1]