40th Street Portal  | |||||
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| SEPTA trolley station | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | 40th Street, Woodland Avenue and Baltimore Avenue Philadelphia, Pennsylvania United States | ||||
| Coordinates | 39°56′58″N 75°12′12″W / 39.94952°N 75.20333°W | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | October 15, 1955 | ||||
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The 40th Street Portal is a SEPTA subway–surface trolley station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
History
editConstruction and opening
editThe Route 37 trolley first entered the 40th street Portal at 4:35 am on the morning of October 17, 1955.[1]
Modifications
editStation layout
editSee also
editReferences
edit- ^ "New Market St. Tube Readied for Trolleys". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 16, 1955. p. A11. Retrieved September 4, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
Bibliography
edit- Puckett, John L.; Lloyd, Mark Frazier (2015). Becoming Penn: The Pragmatic American University, 1950–2000. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-4680-3. Retrieved December 8, 2023.
- Springirth, Kenneth C. (2008). Images of Rail: Southeastern Pennsylvania Trolleys. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-5692-5. Retrieved December 8, 2023.