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33rd Street station (SEPTA)

Subway station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Summary

Subway station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Field	Value
name
style	SEPTA Metro
image	33rdStreetStationSEPTA.png
address	33rd and Market streets
borough	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
coordinates
platform	2 side platforms
tracks	2
owned	SEPTA
connections	SEPTA City Bus:
structure	Underground
accessible	No
opened
services_collapsible	yes
services	{{Adjacent stations	system=SEPTA Metro
line2	T1 adj	left2=36th Street Portal	right2=Drexel Station at 30th Street
line3	T2 adj	left3=36th–Sansom	right3=Drexel Station at 30th Street
line4	T3 adj	left4=36th–Sansom	right4=Drexel Station at 30th Street
line5	T4 adj	left5=36th–Sansom	right5=Drexel Station at 30th Street
line6	T5 adj	left6=36th–Sansom	right6=Drexel Station at 30th Street
mapframe	yes
mapframe-zoom	15
mapframe-marker-color	#
mapframe-marker	rail-light

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33rd Street station is a subway station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, serving all trolleys of the SEPTA Metro T. It is the last station of the T outbound with all lines before the T1 splits away and exits the tunnel at 36th Street Portal. The stop is located on the campus of Drexel University.

History

The station was opened in November 1955 by the Philadelphia Transportation Company (PTC) as part of a larger project to move portions of the elevated Market Street Line and surface trolleys underground. The original project to bury the elevated tracks between 23rd to 46th streets was announced by the PTC's predecessor, the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company, in the 1920s, but was delayed due to the Great Depression and World War II. The PTC's revised project also included a new subway–surface tunnel for subway–surface trolleys underneath the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, continuing from the original western portal at 23rd and Market streets to new portals at 36th and Ludlow streets for Route 10 and 40th Street and Baltimore Avenue for other routes.

On April 11, 1988, a trolley derailed at the station, injuring 27 people.

Station layout

The station has two low-level side platforms, each capable of platforming two trolleys at a time. Fares are collected on board trolleys.

References

{{Williams-Philadelphia
{{Springirth-Philadelphia
(22 November 2021). "University City Campus Map". [[Drexel University]].
"Becoming Penn: The Pragmatic American University, 1950–2000".
John L. Puckett. "Putting the Market Street Elevated Underground". [[University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education]].
Baker, Paul. (April 11, 1988). "Driver, Passenger Still Hospitalized in Crash". [[Philadelphia Daily News]].

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