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13th Street station (SEPTA)

Rapid transit station in Philadelphia

Field	Value
name
style	SEPTA Metro
image	13thSt L1 platform T banner jpg.jpg
image_caption	13th Street L1 Eastbound platform
address	13th and Market streets
borough	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
coordinates
owned	City of Philadelphia
operator	SEPTA
platform	3 side platforms
tracks	2
connections	{{Unbulleted list
structure	Underground
accessible	{{Unbulleted list
Market–Frankford Line: Yes<ref name	"13th-st-station"
Subway–surface trolley lines: Yes<ref name	"13th-st-station"
opened
former	13th/Juniper Streets
Juniper Street (subway–surface) (1908-2011)
services_collapsible	yes
services	{{Adjacent stations	system=SEPTA Metro
line1	L1 adj	left1=15th Street/City Hall	right1=11th Street
line2	T1 adj	left2=15th Street/City Hall
line3	T2 adj	left3=15th Street/City Hall
line4	T3 adj	left4=15th Street/City Hall
line5	T4 adj	left5=15th Street/City Hall
line6	T5 adj	left6=15th Street/City Hall}}
mapframe	yes
mapframe-zoom	15
mapframe-marker-color	#000
mapframe-marker	rail-metro

13th Street station is a SEPTA rapid transit station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, located under Market Street between 13th and Juniper streets in Center City. The station serves the SEPTA Metro L and is the eastern terminal station for all five routes of the T.

13th Street is located on the east side of City Hall and Penn Square and is connected to the Downtown Link concourse, a collection of underground passageways serving multiple stations on the L, B, PATCO Speedline, and Regional Rail lines. The station is also served by bus routes operated by SEPTA's City Transit Division and Suburban Division, as well as NJ Transit Bus routes.

The T platform was known as Juniper Street until 2011. The station was signed as 13th/Juniper Streets on maps at the time.

History

The station opened on August 3, 1908, as part of the first extension of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company's Market Street subway. The line had originally opened a year earlier between 69th Street and 15th Street stations.

The Downtown Link and associated underground corridors surrounding the station are expected to undergo a two-year renovation project in conjunction with renovations to the B 15th Street/City Hall station platforms.

L platforms

L1 Eastbound fare zone dividers with original PTC trolley in SEPTA headquarters

The L platforms are located one floor below ground level, connected to the Downtown Link concourse. The south concourse, accessible from the eastbound platform, features direct underground access to SEPTA's headquarters and transit museum, located at 1234 Market Street. Market–Frankford trains continue west via Market Street across the Schuylkill River to serve West Philadelphia and Upper Darby, and continue east along Market until Front Street, turning north towards Northeast Philadelphia.

T platform

Subway–surface platform in 2017, showing the station's current name

The platform for all T routes is located two stories below ground level. The station is located at the end of the subway–surface line on a balloon loop parallel to Juniper Street and features a single track with all trolleys operating in the same direction.

Inbound trolleys discharge passengers on the southernmost portion of the platform. The trolleys then proceed to pick up passengers at either Berth 1 or Berth 2. Routes 10, 11 and 13 board at Berth 1, which is located on the northernmost portion of the platform. Routes 34 and 36 board at Berth 2, which is in the center of the platform. Upon departure of the station, the track wraps around and heads west towards 15th Street station. It also features a short spur track to the northeast that was formerly used to park occasional stranded or dead trolleys. The track was recently disconnected from the main line due to unsuccessful attempts to tie it into the trolleys' communications-based train control signaling system.

Station layout

The stations has two high-level side platforms for the Market–Frankford trains and one low-level side platform for subway–surface trolleys. Fare control and Downtown Link concourse access are both on the upper platform level.

Image gallery

File:13th Street Subway Entrance 2017h.jpg|Headhouse and bus stop on the northeast corner of 13th & Market streets (Pre-Metro Era) File:13thSt L1 Platform jpg.jpg|L1 Eastbound Platform File:13th Street MFL 1.jpg|L1 Eastbound Platform with L train during 2018 File:13thSt L1 Turnstile jpg.jpg|Turnstiles File:13thSt L1 Eastbound banner jpg.jpg|Eastbound Platform (Metro Era) File:13th Street Subway Entrance 2017a.jpg|Eastbound Platform 2 (Pre-Metro Era)

References

"13th St Station - SEPTA".
SEPTA. (July 1983). "SEPTA High Speed System". Transit Maps.
[https://web.archive.org/web/20080515215148/http://www.septa.org/maps/click_map/13th_street.html SEPTA 13th/Juniper Street MFL station (Archived; May 2008)]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20080829145546/http://www.septa.org/maps/click_map/juniper.html SEPTA Juniper Subway-Surface Lines Station (Archived; May 2008)]
"Downtown Link Center City Concourse". [[SEPTA]].
[https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?72929 Image 72929, nycsubway.org]
{{Cox-Upper Darby
Hepp, John. (2013). "Subways and Elevated Lines". The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia.
Rose, Kennedy. (June 20, 2018). "See SEPTA's redesigned City Hall subway station concourse (Video)". [[Philadelphia Business Journal]].

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