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30th Street Station, officially William H. Gray III 30th Street Station, is a major intermodal transit station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.The station opened in 1933 as Pennsylvania Station–30th Street, replacing the 1881 Broad Street station as the Pennsylvania Railroad's main station in the city.
Trolley platform at 30th Street. Drexel Station at 30th Street opened on November 6, 1955 by the Philadelphia Transportation Company (PTC), [3] built as a replacement for the elevated 32nd Street station that had opened in 1907 as part of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company's original Market Street subway–elevated line from 69th Street T.C. to 15th Street, which was elevated west of 23rd ...
All five routes also stop at 19th Street, 22nd Street, 30th Street Station, and 33rd Street, which are all underground stations. From 15th to 30th Streets, they run in the same tunnel as SEPTA's Market–Frankford Line, which runs express on the inner tracks while the trolleys utilize the outer ones.
SEPTA and Amtrak share the four-track Main Line grade of the "Keystone Corridor" between Philadelphia and Thorndale. This branch makes local stops between Thorndale and Center City Philadelphia along Amtrak's Philadelphia to Harrisburg Main Line, an electrified 104-mile two to four-track high-speed route between Harrisburg Transportation Center in Harrisburg and 30th Street Station in ...
Notes References Lines SEPTA Regional Rail lines Line Weekday ridership (FY 2023) Route length Inbound terminus [b] Outbound terminus Airport Line 5,268 12.10 mi (19.47 km) Temple University Airport Terminals E & F Chestnut Hill East Line 2,318 12.20 mi (19.63 km) 30th Street Station Chestnut Hill East Chestnut Hill West Line 2,768 14.59 mi (23.48 km) Temple University Chestnut Hill West ...
NJT eventually extended service into Philadelphia (via Amtrak's 30th Street Station), and a new station facility was built in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Ridership increased and NJT decided to maintain the line after declaring that the line's ridership had met the target set for it.
30th Street Station: Fox Chase: 10 12.5 mi (20.1 km) 2,425 Philadelphia: Lansdale/ Doylestown Line: 30th Street Station: Lansdale, Doylestown: 28 35.8 mi (57.6 km) 7,674 Philadelphia, Montgomery, Bucks: Manayunk/ Norristown Line: 30th Street Station: Miquon, Norristown Transportation Center, Elm Street: 16 19.5 mi (31.4 km) 4,724
The station opened as a stub-end terminal for Pennsylvania Railroad suburban commuter trains serving Center City Philadelphia, intended to replace the above-ground Broad Street Station in this function. PRR inter-city trains, on the other hand, would use 30th Street Station. The station's full name was originally Broad Street Suburban Station.