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Spring Garden station (Market–Frankford Line)

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Owned by
  
City of Philadelphia

Connections
  
SEPTA City Buses

Opened
  
16 May 1977

Platforms in use
  
1

Line(s)
  
Market–Frankford Line

Electrified
  
700 volts DC

Owner
  
Philadelphia

Tracks
  
2

Spring Garden station (Market–Frankford Line)

Location
  
600 North Front Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Address
  
Philadelphia, PA 19123, United States

Connection
  
SEPTA City Transit Division surface routes

Similar
  
Girard station, Berks station, Erie–Torresdale station, 56th Street station, 46th Street station

Spring Garden station is a SEPTA rapid transit station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the Market–Frankford Line. It is located above the corner of 2nd Street and Spring Garden Street in the Northern Liberties neighborhood. It is the final above-ground/outdoor stop for trains before heading into central Philadelphia.

Though SEPTA gives the address as being at 600 North Front Street, the actual location is the median of Interstate 95 over Spring Garden Street. It was built in 1977 when the Market-Frankford Line's tracks were moved to the median of newly extended Interstate 95 for a distance of about 1 mile and replaced the abandoned nearby Fairmount Avenue Station, which was built in 1922 and had been a Skip-Stop "B" station during rush hours. The new station is currently an "All-Stop" station and is nestled in between the northbound and southbound lanes of Interstate 95 between the highway's Girard Avenue and I-676 interchanges.

Passengers utilizing this station may access such nearby sites as Penn's Landing's Festival Pier, popular Delaware Avenue nightclubs, a branch of the Dave and Busters entertainment complex situated on the Delaware River, and a number of bars, restaurants, and shops in the nearby Northern Liberties neighborhood.

SEPTA City Bus Connections

  • SEPTA Routes 25 and 43.
  • References

    Spring Garden station (Market–Frankford Line) Wikipedia