Broad Street Line

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Broad Street Line
Broad Street Line, Susquehanna – Dauphin Station
Broad Street Line, Susquehanna – Dauphin
Station
Route length: 19.3 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system : 600 V  =
Opening: September 1, 1928
Stations: 25 of which 1 out of service
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Fern Rock Transportation Center
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Fern Rock Yard depot
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Broad Street tunnel (never built)
   
Olney Transportation Center
   
Logan
   
Wyoming
   
Hunting Park
   
Tunnel under Germantown Avenue (never built)
   
Erie
   
Allegheny
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North Philadelphia Northeast Corridor
   
North Philadelphia
   
Susquehanna Dauphin
   
Cecil B. Moore
   
Girard
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Fairmount wedge station with two levels
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Broad-Ridge Spur (see below)
   
Spring Garden
   
Vine Street Expressway (I-676)
   
Race-Vine
   
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Suburban Station Center City Commuter Connection
   
City Hall
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15th Street Market - Frankford Line , Subway - Surface Lines
   
Walnut Locust
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15th-16th & Locust Streets PATCO Speedline
   
   
Lombard-South
   
Ellsworth-Federal
   
Tasker-Morris
   
Tunnel under Passyunk Avenue (never built)
   
Snyder
   
Oregon
   
Schuylkill Expressway (I-76)
   
NRG
Broad-Ridge Lane
   
Girard
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Broad Street Line to Pattison
   
Spring Garden (closed in 1991)
   
Chinatown
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PATCO Speedline to Lindenwold (New Jersey)
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8th & Market Streets
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PATCO Speedline to 15th-16th & Locust Streets

The SEPTA Broad Street Line or Broad Street Subway is an electrically operated subway in the US city ​​of Philadelphia . It is operated by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA). It is also known as the Orange Line because of the color it can be recognized on signs, rolling stock and network maps . The Broad Street Line, along with the New York subway and the 'L' in Chicago, is the only subway in the United States that has longer four-track express lines. The first section was opened on September 1, 1928.

The main line is approximately 10.1 miles (16.25 km) long and has 22 stations. It runs in a north-south direction and, with the exception of the northern terminus Fern Rock Transportation Center and the adjacent depot, is all underground. The designation as Broad Street Line is derived from the street train under which the tunnel is located almost for its entire length. It is the main road through downtown in a north-south direction, which runs practically through the entire city about halfway between the Delaware and Schuylkill and corresponds to Pennsylvania State Route 611 .

In addition to the main line, there is a 1.9 mile (3.1 km) branch with three stations, the Broad / Ridge Lane under Ridge Avenue. It runs tangentially from the north edge of the city center in a southeast direction to 8th Street station on the Market – Frankford Line . Originally, this section continued from there under 8th Street and Locust Street to 15th-16th & Locust Streets station . This section has been used by the PATCO Speedline since 1969 .

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Web links

Commons : Broad Street Line  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b The New York Times (Ed.): PHILADELPHIA OPENS $ 87,000,000 SUBWAY . The New York Times, September 2, 1928, p. 13.