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Buses replaced trolleys between Westinghouse Loop (Lester Road) and Chester. The remainder of the route was converted to bus operation on November 5, 1955. The new service ran to Snyder station in South Philadelphia instead of Center City, replacing the Route 81 bus on Passyunk Avenue. Trolley service between Center City and Westinghouse Loop ...
The PHLASH was first introduced in 1994 by then Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell. [4] Michael Masch, the Philadelphia budget director at the time, helped create the transit line naming it after his favorite Marvel Comics character Flash. [5] The service was operated by the city's Center City District starting in the late 1990s.
The station serves the Old City neighborhood of Philadelphia, with station signs originally reading "Olde City". The 'e' has been covered on the signs with obvious blue stickers. [3] The station also serves Penn's Landing and Spruce Street Harbor Park along the Delaware River. 2nd Street is also served by SEPTA bus routes 5, 17, 33, and 48.
The Chestnut Hill East Line is a continuation of the Reading Company's suburban services on the Chestnut Hill East Branch from Philadelphia to Germantown and Chestnut Hill. The oldest part of the line that became the Chestnut Hill East Branch was opened in 1832 by the Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad , and later became part of ...
There are three divisions and 13 battalions in the department. Division 1 consists of 5 battalions and 23 fire stations while Division 2 has 4 battalions and 17 fire stations and Division 3 has 4 battalions and 21 fire stations. In November 2019, the Department announced plans to staff and reinstate four previously disbanded Engine Companies.
The latter station was opened in 1997 as Eastwick, while 70th Street was never built, and has since disappeared from maps. Additionally, University City station (proposed as "Civic Center", now Penn Medicine station) opened in April 1995 to serve all R1, R2 and R3 trains passing it. All these stations appeared on 1984 SEPTA informational maps ...
Underground passageways connect the 13th and 15th Street Stations to Jefferson Station and Suburban Station. Route 11 surfaces at the 40th Street Portal near 40th Street and Baltimore Avenue , and then runs southwest along Woodland Avenue, along with Route 36 trolleys, and then turns down 49th Street where the Route 10 diversion line ends ...
When Route 10 moved back to Callowhill Depot in the 2000s, trolleys pulled-in/pulled-out to Callowhill Depot via 63rd Street instead, using the outer end of Route 15 along with trackage which once belonged to the Route 41 trolley (abandoned on August 11, 1957, [3] and now served by SEPTA Bus Route 31, another former subway–surface line until ...