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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.
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
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.
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 ...
Station Miles (km) from Center City Connections / notes C Callowhill, Philadelphia: Spring Garden Street: On the former line to Reading Terminal, closed November 6, 1984 [24] Temple University: Temple University: 2.1 (3.4) SEPTA Regional Rail: all lines: 1 Glenwood, Philadelphia: North Broad: 2.9 (4.7) SEPTA Regional Rail: Lansdale/ Doylestown Line
22nd Street 3.9 (6.3) 1 Glenwood, Philadelphia: North Philadelphia: 4.5 (7.2) Amtrak: Keystone Service SEPTA Regional Rail: Chestnut Hill West Line SEPTA Metro: Broad Street Line SEPTA City Bus: 4, 16: 11th Street Fairhill, Philadelphia: North Penn Junction Harrowgate, Philadelphia: Harrowgate Frankford Junction: Discontinued October 4, 1992 [9]
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 ...
The Center City Commuter Connection was tied into the former Reading Ninth Street Branch on November 12, 1984, completing the SEPTA Main Line as it is defined today. SEPTA activated positive train control on the Main Line from Glenside to Fern Rock on December 12, 2016 and from Fern Rock to 30th Street on January 9, 2017. [3]