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80th Street/Eastwick station

SEPTA trolley terminal station in Philadelphia

Field	Value
name
style	SEPTA Metro
image	Eastwick Loop Station House.JPG
image_caption	Restroom at the center of the Eastwick loop
address	Island Avenue near 81st Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
coordinates
electrified	Overhead lines
owned	SEPTA
accessible	No
services	{{Adjacent stations	system=SEPTA Metro
line	T5 adj	right=73rd–Elmwood	note-mid=major stops}}
mapframe	yes
mapframe-zoom	15
mapframe-marker-color	#
mapframe-marker	rail-light

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | mapframe-zoom = 15 | mapframe-marker-color = # | mapframe-marker = rail-light 80th Street/Eastwick station is a SEPTA Metro trolley terminal station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is the western terminus of the T5 route and is located at Island Avenue near its former intersection with Eastwick Avenue near Interstate 95 in the Eastwick neighborhood of Southwest Philadelphia. The Eastwick station of the SEPTA Regional Rail Airport Line, which serves Philadelphia International Airport, is within about a half mile walking distance of the station using Mario Lanza Boulevard along the southern edge of the adjacent Penrose Plaza Shopping Center property. North of Eastwick Loop, the trolleys travel in an unpaved median parallel to Island Avenue until entering the street at Buist Avenue. Currently, PENNDOT is reconfiguring the Island Avenue roadway layout. In the meantime, trolleys currently end at 73rd Street and Elmwood Avenue, and a shuttle bus connects passengers from there to the loop.

Until April 25, 1975, Route 36 (T5) trolleys would continue west along what was called Eastwick Avenue out to 88th Street, where a single counterclockwise loop was built in the swamplands. This was originally the routing of former Subway Surface Streetcar Trolley Route 37, which was merged into Route 36 on November 6, 1955.

History

The Eastwick loop in its current form was established during the 1980s. Before that point, the western terminus of the Route 36 trolley was moved around to several locations in southwestern Philadelphia. Service was cut back to 94th Street & Eastwick Avenue on September 9, 1956. A similar instance happened on 88th Street on August 15, 1962, then truncated again to its current terminus at 80th Street on April 26, 1975.

In 1985, Island Avenue was converted into a new bridge over the SEPTA Airport Line near the station. The intersection of 80th Street and Eastwick Avenue was then replaced by a frontage road loop on the north side of the tracks. Today's current trolley loop is located on the northwest corner of this bridge. Some of the former termini of the line are now located within the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum.

References

[http://uglybridges.com/1476962 ISLAND AVENUE over SEPTA; FRONTAGE ROAD - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (UglyBridges.com)]

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