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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.
Tracks for Route 10 start at Lancaster Avenue (Route 10) and proceed southbound along 40th Street. At Market Street, the line connects to the Market–Frankford Line at its 40th Street station. The surface tracks continue southbound to Spruce Street, where they split either eastbound or westbound. Westbound tracks run to 42nd Street where they ...
The Market–Frankford Line (MFL), [a] currently rebranding as the L, [b] is a rapid transit line in the SEPTA Metro network in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.The MFL runs from the 69th Street Transportation Center in Upper Darby, just outside of West Philadelphia, through Center City Philadelphia to the Frankford Transportation Center in Near Northeast Philadelphia.
SEPTA Metro is an urban rail transit network in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, operated by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority . The network includes two rapid transit lines, a light metro line, a surface-running trolley line, and a subway–surface trolley line, totaling 78 miles (126 km) [ b ] of rail ...
After stopping in Philadelphia, certain trains continue along the Northeast Corridor to New York. The western section traverses mountainous terrain, and has obstacles limiting track speeds such as the Horseshoe Curve. The Pennsylvanian, consisting of one train in each direction per day, is the only route between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
Station complex Individual stations Lines Services Notes 14th Street/Sixth Avenue: 14th Street: IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line 1 2 3 The IND Sixth Avenue Line and BMT Canarsie Line were connected inside fare control in the late 1960s, [citation needed] and a passageway west to the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line opened on January 16, 1978.
The Chestnut Hill East Line is a route of the SEPTA Regional Rail (commuter rail) system. The route serves the northwestern section of Philadelphia with service to Germantown, Mount Airy, and Chestnut Hill. It is one of two lines that serve Chestnut Hill, the other one being the Chestnut Hill West Line. The line is fully grade-separated.
At Bethayres, it crosses the Pennypack Trail that runs along the former Philadelphia, Newtown and New York Railroad, which once connected with the Fox Chase Line. At Oakford, the former New York Short Line Railroad, once part of the Reading's main line to West Trenton and Jersey City and currently CSX's Trenton Subdivision, merges. North of ...