SEPTA Route 36

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Route 36 (T5)
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SEPTA Route 36 at the 40th Street Portal
Overview
Termini
Stations8 underground stations, 1 surface level station, and 40 street-level stops
Service
System SEPTA Metro
Depot(s) Elmwood Carhouse
Daily ridership12,737 (2019)
History
Opened1904
Technical
Line length15.3 mi (24.6 km)[ citation needed ]
Track gauge 5 ft 2+14 in (1,581 mm) Pennsylvania trolley gauge [1] [2]
Electrification Overhead line,  600 V DC
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SEPTA's Subway-Surface Trolley Route 36 (a.k.a.; the Elmwood Avenue-Subway Line) is a trolley line operated by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) that connects the 13th Street station in downtown Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to the Eastwick Loop station in Eastwick section of Southwest Philadelphia, although limited service is available to the Elmwood Carhouse. It is the longest of the five lines that are part of the Subway-Surface Trolley system, and was even longer between 1956 and 1962 when the western terminus was at 94th Street and Eastwick Avenue. From 1962 through the 1970s, it was at 88th Street and Eastwick Avenue, making the route 16.2 miles (26.1 km) long. [3] Since 1975, it only goes as far as what was once 80th Street at the southern edge of the Penrose Plaza shopping center parking lot. Route 36 will be rebranded as the T5 as part of the transition to SEPTA Metro.

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Route description

Starting from its eastern end at the 13th Street, Route 36 runs in a tunnel under Market Street. It stops at underground stations at 15th Street, 19th Street, 22nd Street, 30th Street, and 33rd Street. From 15th to 30th Streets, it runs on the outer tracks in the same tunnel as SEPTA's Market–Frankford Line.

Passengers may transfer free of charge to the Market–Frankford Line at 13th, 15th, and 30th Streets and to the Broad Street Line at 15th Street. Connections to the SEPTA Regional Rail are also available. Underground passageways connect the 13th and 15th Street Stations to Jefferson Station and Suburban Station.

Route 36 surfaces at the 40th Street Portal near 40th Street and Baltimore Avenue (US 13), and then runs southwest along Woodland Avenue along with the Route 11 trolleys, and then turns down 49th Street where the Woodland Maintenance Facility is located and the Route 10 diversion line ends. After 49th Street crosses over the Wilmington/Newark Line, it takes a sharp right curve as the road becomes Grays Avenue. Route 36 runs along Grays south of the Wilmington/Newark Line until it makes a diagonal move southwest onto Lindbergh Boulevard. Shortly after leaving Grays the line intersects with 54th Street and crosses over a bridge for the Philadelphia Subdivision freight line, and immediately intersects with a road running along the line leading to Bartram's Botanical Garden, the oldest surviving botanical garden in North America. [4]

Just before Lindbergh Boulevard becomes a divided highway east of 56th Street, the line moves onto Elmwood Avenue. From there it crosses over the Airport Line, continuing westward until it enters an industrial area and makes a left turn at a five way intersection that includes Elmwood Avenue, Island Road and Passyunk Avenue on the southeast corner. The northeast corner is the location of the Elmwood Depot on Island Road. Tracks runs northward along Island Road as far north as Woodland Avenue, which handles pull-ins/pull-outs for Routes 11 & 13.

Island Road is a wide boulevard with the Route 36 tracks down the middle, until the road divides at Buist Avenue, where the tracks run down the median, and a trolley stop exists. Another stop exists at Tanager Street. South of Tanager Street, the southbound Island Avenue lane crosses over the tracks, and they now run between the main road and southbound frontage road. The next stop is South 76th Street, which intersects with the frontage road, but has a stop along both this and the main road. The Route 36 line crosses Lindbergh Boulevard again, where it has its own stop in the median on both sides of the tracks north of Lindbergh Boulevard. The southwest corner also includes the Penrose Plaza Shopping Center, which spans the west side of Island Road as far down as the terminus of the Route 36 line, the Eastwick Loop, which is accessible from a U-Turn beneath the Island Road bridge over the SEPTA Airport Line, and is four blocks east of Eastwick Railroad Station. SEPTA plans to expand the regional rail station and possibly merge it with the trolley station, transforming it into the Eastwick Transportation Center. [5]

History

Route 36 was established as the Elmwood Avenue Line in 1904 by the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company. Original streetcar service operated between Island Road and Elmwood Avenue via Center City on Market Street to Front & Market Streets. Service rerouted into the Subway-Surface Tunnel and extended to the Westinghouse Plant in Essington on November 5, 1955, replacing Route 37 trolley service. OWL (24-hour) service transferred from Route 37 to Route 36 at the same time. At the western terminus, service was cut back to 94th Street & Eastwick Avenue on September 9, 1956. Service was cut back again to 88th Street on August 15, 1962, Service was cut back a third time to 84th Street on January 5, 1966, but extended back to 88th Street on December 11, 1972. Service was cut back to 80th Street & Eastwick Avenue on April 26, 1975. In 1985, Island Avenue was converted into a new bridge over the SEPTA Airport Line near the station, and the intersection of 80th Street and Eastwick Avenue was replaced by a frontage road loop on the north side of the tracks. [6] Despite the elimination of the 80th Street intersection, trolleys still sign their destination as 80th Street – Eastwick. Originally, the trolley sign showed the previous name Eastwick.

In 2021, SEPTA proposed rebranding their rail transit service as "SEPTA Metro", in order to make the system easier to navigate. Under this proposal, the subway–surface lines will be rebranded as the "T" lines with a green color and numeric suffixes for each service, and Route 36 would be renamed "T5 Elmwood Avenue." [7] [8] SEPTA described that "most comments were positive" in the public comment period for this rebranding project. [9]

Stations and stops

All are in the City of Philadelphia.

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Market East 13th Street trolley 1.jpg 13th Street SEPTA Metro.svg SEPTA Metro: SEPTA L icon.svg Market–Frankford Line, SEPTA T1 icon.svg Route 10, SEPTA T2 icon.svg Route 34, SEPTA T3 icon.svg Route 13, SEPTA T4 icon.svg Route 11, SEPTA T5 icon.svg Route 36
Bus-logo.svg SEPTA City Bus: 27, 31, 32
Closed between 12:30–5:00am
Penn Center 15th Street SEPTA 2018 trolley.JPG 15th Street SEPTA.svg SEPTA Regional Rail: all lines(at Suburban)
SEPTA Metro.svg SEPTA Metro: SEPTA B icon.svg Broad Street Line (at City Hall), SEPTA L icon.svg Market–Frankford Line, SEPTA T1 icon.svg Route 10, SEPTA T2 icon.svg Route 34, SEPTA T3 icon.svg Route 13, SEPTA T4 icon.svg Route 11, SEPTA T5 icon.svg Route 36
Bus-logo.svg SEPTA City Bus:4, 16, 17, 27, 31, 32, 33, 38, 44, 48
BSicon BUS2.svg SEPTA Suburban Bus: 124, 125
Late night terminus
SEPTA Subway-Surface underground.jpg 19th Street SEPTA Metro.svg SEPTA Metro: SEPTA T1 icon.svg Route 10, SEPTA T2 icon.svg Route 34, SEPTA T3 icon.svg Route 13, SEPTA T4 icon.svg Route 11, SEPTA T5 icon.svg Route 36
Bus-logo.svg SEPTA City Bus: 17, 31, 38, 44, 48, 62, 78
BSicon BUS2.svg SEPTA Suburban Bus: 124
Center City West 22nd Street trolley station Philadelphia.jpg 22nd Street SEPTA Metro.svg SEPTA Metro: SEPTA T1 icon.svg Route 10, SEPTA T2 icon.svg Route 34, SEPTA T3 icon.svg Route 13, SEPTA T4 icon.svg Route 11, SEPTA T5 icon.svg Route 36
Bus-logo.svg SEPTA City Bus: 7, 31, 44, 62
BSicon BUS2.svg SEPTA Suburban Bus: 124, 125
Replaced 24th Street station
University City 30th Street Trolley Station 2.jpg Drexel Station at 30th Street BSicon LOGO Amtrak2.svg Amtrak (at 30th Street)
NJT logo.svg NJ Transit: ACL Atlantic City Line (at 30th Street)
SEPTA.svg SEPTA Regional Rail: all lines(at 30th Street)
SEPTA Metro.svg SEPTA Metro: SEPTA L icon.svg Market–Frankford Line, SEPTA T1 icon.svg Route 10, SEPTA T2 icon.svg Route 34, SEPTA T3 icon.svg Route 13, SEPTA T4 icon.svg Route 11, SEPTA T5 icon.svg Route 36
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No direct passage to 30th Street Station
33rd Street station SEPTA 2018a.jpg 33rd Street SEPTA Metro.svg SEPTA Metro: SEPTA T1 icon.svg Route 10, SEPTA T2 icon.svg Route 34, SEPTA T3 icon.svg Route 13, SEPTA T4 icon.svg Route 11, SEPTA T5 icon.svg Route 36
Bus-logo.svg SEPTA City Bus: 30, 31, 49, LUCY
Serves Drexel University
36th Street Station SEPTA.jpg 36th Street SEPTA Metro.svg SEPTA Metro: SEPTA T2 icon.svg Route 34, SEPTA T3 icon.svg Route 13, SEPTA T4 icon.svg Route 11
Bus-logo.svg SEPTA City Bus: 21
Serves University of Pennsylvania
37th Street Station 2018c.jpg 37th Street SEPTA Metro.svg SEPTA Metro: SEPTA T2 icon.svg Route 34, SEPTA T3 icon.svg Route 13, SEPTA T4 icon.svg Route 11
Bus-logo.svg SEPTA City Bus: 40 , 42 , LUCY
Serves University of Pennsylvania, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Spruce Hill SEPTA K-Car Subway Surface.jpg 40th Street Portal SEPTA Metro.svg SEPTA Metro: SEPTA T2 icon.svg Route 34, SEPTA T3 icon.svg Route 13, SEPTA T4 icon.svg Route 11
Bus-logo.svg SEPTA City Bus: 30 , 40 , 42 , LUCY
End of Route 34 concurrency
Chester & Woodland SEPTA Metro.svg SEPTA Metro: SEPTA T3 icon.svg Route 13, SEPTA T4 icon.svg Route 11
Bus-logo.svg SEPTA City Bus: 30
End of Route 13 concurrency
41st & Woodland (EB) SEPTA Metro.svg SEPTA Metro: SEPTA T4 icon.svg Route 11
Bus-logo.svg SEPTA City Bus: 30
42nd & Woodland SEPTA Metro.svg SEPTA Metro: SEPTA T4 icon.svg Route 11
43rd & Woodland (WB)
45th & Woodland (EB)
SEPTA Metro.svg SEPTA Metro: SEPTA T4 icon.svg Route 11
Squirrel Hill 46th & Woodland SEPTA Metro.svg SEPTA Metro: SEPTA T4 icon.svg Route 11
47th & Woodland (EB) SEPTA Metro.svg SEPTA Metro: SEPTA T4 icon.svg Route 11
Kingsessing 48th & Woodland SEPTA Metro.svg SEPTA Metro: SEPTA T4 icon.svg Route 11
Woodland49.jpg 49th & Woodland SEPTA Metro.svg SEPTA Metro: SEPTA T4 icon.svg Route 11
Bus-logo.svg SEPTA City Bus: 12 , 52 , 64
End of Route 11 concurrency
Paschall & 49th Bus-logo.svg SEPTA City Bus: 12 , 64
49th & Grays (EB)
51st & Grays
52nd & Grays (EB)
Grays & Lindbergh (WB)
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Wheeler & Lindbergh
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57th & Elmwood
Elmwood 58th & Elmwood
59th & Elmwood
Edgewood & Elmwood
61st & Elmwood
Elmwood62.jpg 62nd & Elmwood Bus-logo.svg SEPTA City Bus: G
63rd & Elmwood
64th & Elmwood
65th & Elmwood BSicon BUS2.svg SEPTA Suburban Bus: 108
66th & Elmwood BSicon BUS2.svg SEPTA Suburban Bus: 108
67th & Elmwood
68th & Elmwood
69th & Elmwood
70th & Elmwood
71st & Elmwood
72nd & Elmwood
SEPTA LRVs at the maintenance facility, 1993.jpg 73rd & Elmwood Located near Elmwood Depot & overnight terminus
Eastwick Island & Elmwood Bus-logo.svg SEPTA City Bus: 68
BSicon BUS2.svg SEPTA Suburban Bus: 108
Buist & Island Bus-logo.svg SEPTA City Bus: 68
Tanager & Island
76th & Island
Lindbergh & Island Bus-logo.svg SEPTA City Bus: 37 , 68
Eastwick Loop Platform; Route 36x2.JPG Island/Suffolk
Eastwick Loop Station House.JPG 80th Street–Eastwick SEPTA.svg SEPTA Regional Rail:       Airport Line (at Eastwick)

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22nd Street station is an underground trolley station in Center City, Philadelphia that serves the SEPTA Subway–Surface Trolley Lines. Similar to 19th Street station, three blocks east of it, the station has two side platforms and a total of four tracks. The station serves only subway–surface trolleys on the two outer tracks; the Market-Frankford Line subway uses the two inner tracks and bypasses the station as it travels between 15th Street and 30th Street station.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Southwest Philadelphia</span> Neighborhood of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, United States

Southwest Philadelphia is a section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The section can be described as extending from the western side of the Schuylkill River to the city line, with the SEPTA. The northern border is defined by the Philadelphia City Planning Commission as east from the city line along Baltimore Avenue moving south along 51st Street to Springfield Ave. It follows the train tracks until 49th Street. From 49th and Kingsessing Ave the line moves east along Kingsessing Ave. The line then moves south along 46th St to Paschall Ave where it jogs to join Grays Ferry where the line runs to the Schuylkill River.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Elmwood Carhouse</span> SEPTA Subway–Surface Trolley Depot

Elmwood Carhouse is a SEPTA Subway–Surface trolley carbarn that house the current Kawasaki LRVs that run on routes 11, 13, 34 & 36. From September 1992 to September 2005, Route 10 was housed here as well; however, with the restoration of the trolley service to Route 15 in 2005, the Route 10 trolleys are stored at Callowhill Carhouse.

Route 37 is a bus and former streetcar route operated by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

References

  1. "The history of trolley cars and routes in Philadelphia". SEPTA. June 1, 1974. p. 2. Retrieved June 11, 2014. An early city ordinance prescribed that all tracks were to have a gauge of 5' 214".
  2. Hilton, George W.; Due, John Fitzgerald (January 1, 2000). The Electric Interurban Railways in America. Stanford University Press. ISBN   9780804740142 . Retrieved June 10, 2014.
  3. 1974 SEPTA Trolleys Brochure
  4. Directions to Bartram's Garden (Official Site)
  5. SEPTA Regional Rail Lines (NYC Subways.org)
  6. ISLAND AVENUE over SEPTA; FRONTAGE ROAD – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (UglyBridges.com)
  7. Vitarelli, Alicia; Staff (September 7, 2021). "SEPTA Metro? Transit agency mulling big changes including new name, map, and signage". Philadelphia, PA: WPVI-TV. Retrieved September 7, 2021.
  8. "Wayfinding Recommendations". SEPTA. Retrieved September 7, 2021.
  9. "Design Concept Feedback". planning.septa.org. SEPTA. Retrieved March 19, 2023.
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