40th Street (SEPTA Subway–Surface Trolley station)
40th Street | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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SEPTA tram station | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Route 36 trolley at the 40th Street portal | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Location |
Near 40th Street, Woodland Avenue and Baltimore Avenue Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 39°56′58″N 75°12′12″W / 39.9495°N 75.2033°WCoordinates: 39°56′58″N 75°12′12″W / 39.9495°N 75.2033°W | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Owned by | SEPTA | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Platforms | 3 side platforms | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Tracks | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Opened | 1955 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Electrified | Overhead lines | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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40th Street is a SEPTA Subway-Surface Lines trolley station. At this station, known as the 40th Street Portal, four of the five Subway-Surface Lines enter the Woodland Avenue subway tunnel after running on the street in Southwest Philadelphia and nearby suburbs. Eastbound trolleys run in the tunnel under the nearby campuses of the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University to Center City Philadelphia. Westbound trolleys travel to the Philadelphia neighborhoods of Eastwick and Angora and the Delaware County suburbs of Yeadon and Darby.
The station is above ground at the entrance to the tunnel. When the tunnel is closed, trolleys are re-routed along 42nd Street to intersect with the 40th Street station of the Market-Frankford Line.
Notable places nearby
External links
- SEPTA 40th Street SSL Station
- SSL Map with split at 40th Street
- SEPTA 40th Street Portal (SubwayNut.com)
- Station from Woodland Avenue from Google Maps Street View
- Station from Baltimore Avenue from Google Maps Street View
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