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Location | 2700 South Broad Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | |||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 39°55′00″N75°10′17″W / 39.9168°N 75.1713°W | |||||||||||||||||
Owned by | City of Philadelphia | |||||||||||||||||
Operated by | SEPTA | |||||||||||||||||
Platforms | 1 island platform | |||||||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
Connections | SEPTA City Bus: 4, 7, 68, G | |||||||||||||||||
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Structure type | Underground | |||||||||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | |||||||||||||||||
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Opened | April 8, 1973 | |||||||||||||||||
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Oregon station is a rapid transit passenger rail station on SEPTA's Broad Street Line. [1] It is located at 2700 South Broad Street (PA 611) at the intersection of Oregon Avenue in the Marconi Plaza neighborhood of South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is the last stop before the southern terminus of the line. Oregon station opened on April 8, 1973 on the north side of Marconi Park.
Access to the station is via two station houses on northeast and southeast corners of Broad Street and Oregon Avenue. Like the neighboring NRG station, Oregon station fare control barriers are at street level.
The Broad Street Line (BSL), also known as the Broad Street subway (BSS), Orange Line, or Broad Line, is a subway line owned by the city of Philadelphia and operated by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA). The line runs primarily north-south from the Fern Rock Transportation Center in North Philadelphia through Center City Philadelphia to NRG station at Pattison Avenue in South Philadelphia; the latter station provides access to the stadiums and arenas for the city's major professional sports teams at the South Philadelphia Sports Complex, about a quarter mile away. It is named for Broad Street, under which the line runs for almost its entire length. In 2024, as part of the SEPTA Metro plan, the Broad Street Line is undergoing a rebrand to the service letter B.
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