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40th Street Portal (SEPTA station)

40th Street Portal
SEPTA K-Car Subway Surface.jpg
Route 36 trolley at the 40th Street portal
Location Near 40th Street, Woodland Avenue and Baltimore Avenue
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates 39°56′58″N 75°12′12″W / 39.9495°N 75.2033°W / 39.9495; -75.2033Coordinates: 39°56′58″N 75°12′12″W / 39.9495°N 75.2033°W / 39.9495; -75.2033
Owned by SEPTA
Line(s)
Platforms 3 side platforms
Tracks 8
History
Opened 1955
Electrified Overhead lines
Services
Preceding station   SEPTA.svg SEPTA   Following station
toward Darby
SEPTA Trolley
toward 13th Street
SEPTA Trolley
toward 61st Street
SEPTA Trolley
SEPTA Trolley

The 40th Street Portal, also known as simply 40th Street station, is a SEPTA Subway-Surface Lines trolley station in Philadelphia. At this station's portal, four of the five Subway-Surface Lines enter the Woodland Avenue subway tunnel after running on the street in Southwest Philadelphia and nearby suburbs. Eastbound trolleys run in the tunnel under the nearby campuses of the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University to Center City Philadelphia. Westbound trolleys travel to the Philadelphia neighborhoods of Eastwick and Angora and the Delaware County suburbs of Yeadon and Darby.

The station is above ground at the entrance to the tunnel. When the tunnel is closed, trolleys are re-routed along 42nd Street to intersect with the 40th Street station of the Market-Frankford Line.




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