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40th Street station (SEPTA)

Rapid transit station in Philadelphia

Field	Value
name
style	SEPTA Metro
image	SEPTA40thStreetStation2018.jpg
image_caption	40th Street station platform
address	40th and Market Streets
borough	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
coordinates
owned	SEPTA
platform	2 side platforms
tracks	2
connections	SEPTA City Bus: , ,
structure	Underground
accessible	Yes
opened
rebuilt	2017
services	{{Adjacent stations	system=SEPTA Metro
line1	L1 adj	left1=46th Street	right1=34th Street
note-row1	On Sunday nights, Monday mornings, and other detours
line2	T1 adj	left2=41st & Lancaster	note-mid2=diverted service
line3	T2 adj	left3=42nd & Baltimore	note-mid3=diverted service
line4	T3 adj	left4=42nd & Chester	note-mid4=diverted service
line5	T4 adj	left5=42nd & Woodland	note-mid5=diverted service
line6	T5 adj	left6=42nd & Woodland	note-mid6=diverted service
other_services_collapsible	yes
other_services_header	Former services
other_services
mapframe	yes
mapframe-zoom	15
mapframe-marker-color	#
mapframe-marker	rail-metro

|note-row1=On Sunday nights, Monday mornings, and other detours | mapframe-zoom = 15 | mapframe-marker-color = # | mapframe-marker = rail-metro

40th Street station is an underground station on the SEPTA Metro L, located the intersection of 40th Street and Market Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the line between the Spruce Hill and Powelton Village neighborhoods in the University City District of West Philadelphia. The station serves a major shopping corridor of West Philadelphia on 40th Street, as well as the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, which lies three blocks south of the station.

The station is served by SEPTA City Bus routes , and . The station also serves as the inbound terminal for the SEPTA subway-surface trolley lines when services are diverted from the Market Street tunnels –– on Sundays & Mondays from 12:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m. and during any other unforeseen circumstances. All T trolley routes (except T1, which boards on Filbert Street west of 40th Street a quarter block north of Market Street) start their outbound trips at the intersection of 40th Street and Market Street, just outside entrances to the Market–Frankford platforms. Inbound trips end on Filbert Street just east of 40th Street a quarter block north, and transferring passengers then have to walk south on 40th Street to the Market-Frankford entrances at Market Street.

History

40th Street station was opened on November 6, 1955 by the Philadelphia Transportation Company, built to replace the elevated station that opened in 1907 as part of Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company's (PRT) original Market Street subway–elevated line from to , which was elevated west of 23rd Street.

The PRT announced a project to bury the elevated tracks between 23rd to 46th streets in the 1920s. The tunnel from 23rd to 32nd streets was completed by 1933, but construction on the remaining segment was put on hiatus due to the Great Depression and World War II. which began building the rest of the tunnel in 1947.

The station was renovated in 2017, making it accessible to people with disabilities. Two elevators were installed, one for each platform, each of the four entrance stairwells were covered with artistic screens, and underground lighting and tiles were replaced. The project was completed on October 21, 2017, at a total cost of $10.9 million.

Station layout

The station has two side platforms with separate fare control on either side. West of the station, the tracks climb out of a portal near 44th Street and run west as an elevated line.

Image gallery

File:40thStreetEntrance.jpg|New stairwell tile installed in 2017 File:SEPTA40thStreetStationEntrance2017I.jpg|Newly-designed station entrance built in 2017 File:SEPTA40thStreetStationPlatformSign2017.jpg|Underground platform File:SEPTA40thStreetStationPlatformSign2007.jpg|Old 40th Street station signage from 2007 File:SEPTA40thStreetStationEntrance2017-trolley.jpg|Diverted trolley at surface level

References

(2018). "Route 10, 11, 13, 15, 34 & 36 Trolley Line Map". [[SEPTA]].
{{Williams-Philadelphia
{{Cox-Upper Darby
{{Springirth-Philadelphia
John Hepp. (2013). "Subways and Elevated Lines". Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia.
John L. Puckett. "Putting the Market Street Elevated Underground". [[University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education]].
"Studio 34's Eponymous Trolley, or, A Short History of Route 34".
"40th Street Station". SEPTA.

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