36th Street Portal
36th Street Portal Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority | |||||||||||||
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Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||
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Structure type | At-grade | ||||||||||||
Accessible | No | ||||||||||||
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Opened | October 17, 1955[1] | ||||||||||||
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The 36th Street Portal is a
The station is two blocks north of 36th Street station, an underground station serving the remaining subway–surface routes.
History
The portal station was opened on October 17, 1955
However, service to the vicinity of 36th and Market streets has existed long before then, as the Route 10 was established in its original form by the PRT in 1906.[2]
Station layout
West of the station, Route 10 runs on surface streets through
References
- ISBN 978-0-7385-5692-5.
- ^ a b c ISEPTAPHILLY Blog. "Route of the Week – 10". SEPTA. Retrieved June 2, 2020.
- ISBN 978-0-7385-5692-5.
- ^ Puckett, John L. and Mark Frazier Lloyd. Becoming Penn: The Pragmatic American University, 1950–2000, p. 35, at Google Books, accessed May 31, 2020.
- ^ a b John L. Puckett. "Putting the Market Street Elevated Underground". West Philadelphia Collaborative History. University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. Retrieved June 2, 2020.
External links
- Media related to 36th Street Portal (SEPTA station) at Wikimedia Commons
- SEPTA – 36th Street Portal