Suburban station
The Suburban Station (German: Vorortbahnhof ) is an underground passenger station for regional traffic in downtown Philadelphia in the US state of Pennsylvania . It opened on September 28, 1930, replacing the old Broad Street Station in the neighborhood. Access is via the foyer of an office building that was built alongside the train station. The station is also connected to the 15th Street / Philadelphia City Hall subway station via a spacious distribution level.
The station was built in the years 1929-30 together with the office building above, the Pennsylvania Center, by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) as part of the Philadelphia Improvements as an eight-track terminus for local traffic. Since the 1950s there were plans to extend the tunnel beyond Suburban Station to the west. This meant that the trains should run on the routes of the competing railway company Reading , which also had a terminus for its suburban trains at the other end of the city center.
Due to financial and technical difficulties, this project could only be implemented in the early 1980s in the form of the Center City Commuter Connection . Since then, the Suburban Station has been a through station with four continuous tracks in a west-east direction.
In 2007, the station was by far the busiest passenger station in downtown Philadelphia with 23,342 passengers per day.
Web links
- Pennways: Highway and Transportation History Website: Center City Commuter Connection (Commuter Tunnel) .
- Homepage of the SEPTA .
Individual evidence
- ↑ SEPTA - ANNUAL SERVICE PLAN - FISCAL YEAR 2009 . Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), Service Planning Department. April 2008. Archived from the original on November 25, 2008. Retrieved June 5, 2009.
Coordinates: 39 ° 57 ′ 13.7 ″ N , 75 ° 9 ′ 59.7 ″ W.