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36th Street station (SEPTA)

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Coordinates: 39°57′14″N 75°11′41″W / 39.953890°N 75.194630°W / 39.953890; -75.194630
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Not to be confused with 36th Street Portal.
36th Street
SEPTA trolley station
36th Street station
General information
Location36th and Sansom Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates39°57′14″N 75°11′41″W / 39.953890°N 75.194630°W / 39.953890; -75.194630
Owned bySEPTA
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
ConnectionsSEPTA City Bus: 21
Construction
Structure typeUnderground
History
OpenedNovember 1955[1]
ElectrifiedOverhead lines
Services
Preceding station SEPTA Following station
37th Street
toward Darby T.C.
 Route 11 33rd Street
toward 13th Street
37th Street
toward Yeadon Loop or Darby T.C.
 Route 13
37th Street
toward 61st & Baltimore
 Route 34
37th Street
toward 80th Street–Eastwick
 Route 36
Location
36th Street is located in Philadelphia
36th Street
36th Street
Location within Philadelphia

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

  • Mezzanine
    Mezzanine
  • View from the eastbound platforms under the street
    View from the eastbound platforms under the street
  • The northeast corner entrance to Sansom Common station
    The northeast corner entrance to Sansom Common station
  • Platform view
    Platform view

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Springirth, Kenneth C. (2016). Philadelphia Electrified Rail Lines In Color. Scotch Plains, New Jersey: Morning Sun Books Inc. ISBN 978-1-5824-8498-3.
  3. ^ "Visit". ICA Philadelphia. Retrieved May 31, 2020.

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