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The St. Charles Avenue Line is the oldest continuously operating street railway system in the world, beginning operation as a horse-drawn system in 1835; the line was electrified in 1893. Three additional lines built to more modern standards have been added since 1988. Philadelphia: SEPTA subway–surface trolley lines: 1906 19.8 mi (31.9 km) 5
80th Street–Eastwick: 7,101 Route 15 Trolley: Trolley: All Stops 63rd–Girard Richmond–Westmoreland: 4,762 Media–Sharon Hill Line: Trolley: Route 101 Orange Street/ Media: 69th Street: 2,023 Route 102 Chester Pike / Sharon Hill: 2,097 Norristown High Speed Line: Light metro: Local 69th Street: Norristown: 4,510
St. Charles and St. Joseph Street (outbound) Howard Avenue and Carondelet Street (inbound) Arts and Warehouse District: By way of St. Charles Avenue from Tivoli Circle/Harmony Circle [17] to Carrollton Avenue: Tivoli Circle: Arts and Warehouse District: Stop is located south of Lee Circle where inbound and outbound tracks meet
The Omaha Motor Railway Company began operation in 1888. [14] Along the east coast a large-scale electric street railway system known as the Richmond Union Passenger Railway was built by Frank J. Sprague in Richmond, Virginia, and was operating by February 2, 1888. The Richmond system had a large impact upon the burgeoning electric trolley ...
At the same time, the north-south leg of the Philadelphia City Railroad opened, running south along Broad Street from the Philadelphia and Columbia. The Northern Liberties and Penn Township Railroad opened in 1834, connecting the Philadelphia and Columbia to the Delaware River north of downtown, and later that year the Southwark Rail-Road ...
Jefferson Station (formerly named Market East Station) is an underground SEPTA Regional Rail station located on Market Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.It is the easternmost of the three Center City stations of the SEPTA Regional Rail system and is part of the Center City Commuter Connection, which connects the former Penn Central commuter lines with the former Reading Company commuter lines.
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It is located in North Philadelphia under the intersection of 3700 North Broad Street and Erie Avenue. Since Erie is an express station, it has four tracks and two central platforms, with express and Ridge Spur trains operating on the inner tracks and local trains operating on the outer tracks.