36th Street station (SEPTA)
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36th Street | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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subway–surface trolley line station | |||||||||||||||||||||||
General information | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Location | 36th & Sansom Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 39°57′14″N 75°11′41″W / 39.953890°N 75.194630°W | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Owned by | SEPTA | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Connections | SEPTA City Bus: 21 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Construction | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Structure type | Underground | ||||||||||||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Opened | November 1955[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Electrified | Overhead lines | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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36th Street station, also known as Sansom Common station, is a SEPTA subway station in Philadelphia.[2] It is located underneath the intersection of Sansom and 36th Streets, and serves Routes 11, 13, 34, and 36 of the SEPTA subway–surface trolley lines. Trolleys serving this station go eastbound to Center City Philadelphia and westbound to the neighborhoods of Eastwick and Angora and the Delaware County suburbs of Yeadon and Darby.
The station is located adjacent to the Institute of Contemporary Art[3] and is two blocks away from the 36th Street Portal station, which serves the Route 10 trolley.
History
The station opened in November 1955, when trolley tracks running on surface streets through the University of Pennsylvania's campus were submerged in a tunnel.[1]
Station layout
The station has two low-level side platforms, each capable of platforming two trolleys at a time. Fares are collected manually on board the trolley cars.
Template:SEPTA trolley platform layout
Gallery
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Mezzanine
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View from the eastbound platforms under the street
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The northeast corner entrance to Sansom Common station
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Platform view
References
- ^ a b Puckett, John L. and Mark Frazier Lloyd. Becoming Penn: The Pragmatic American University, 1950-2000, p. 35, at Google Books, accessed May 31, 2020.
- ^ Springirth, Kenneth C. (2016). Philadelphia Electrified Rail Lines In Color. Scotch Plains, New Jersey: Morning Sun Books Inc. ISBN 978-1-5824-8498-3.
- ^ "Visit". ICA Philadelphia. Retrieved May 31, 2020.
External links
Media related to Sansom Commons / 36th Street (SEPTA station) at Wikimedia Commons