Jefferson Station (Philadelphia)

Jefferson Station
SEPTA Regional Rail station
11th Street entrance to Jefferson Station.
Location	12th and Filbert Streets Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	39°57′07″N 75°09′24″W / 39.952076°N 75.156612°W / 39.952076; -75.156612Coordinates: 39°57′07″N 75°09′24″W / 39.952076°N 75.156612°W / 39.952076; -75.156612
Owned by	SEPTA
Line(s)	Airport Line   Chestnut Hill East Line   Chestnut Hill West Line   Fox Chase Line   Lansdale/Doylestown Line   Manayunk/Norristown Line   Media/Elwyn Line   Paoli/Thorndale Line   Trenton Line   Warminster Line   West Trenton Line   Wilmington/Newark Line
Platforms	2 island platforms
Tracks	4
Connections	Market–Frankford Line at 11th St. and 8th St.   Broad Street Line Ridge Spur at 8th St.   PATCO Speedline at 8th & Market Sts. SEPTA City Bus: 9, 17, 23, 33, 38, 44, 47, 47M, 48, 61, 62, 78 NJT Bus: 400, 401, 402, 404, 406, 408, 409, 410, 412, 414, 417 At Greyhound Terminal: NJT Bus: 313, 315, 316, 317, 318, 551 Greyhound Lines Bieber Tourways Trailways Transportation System (Capitol Trailways, Martz Trailways, Susquehanna Trailways) Peter Pan Bus Lines
Construction
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	C
History
Opened	November 1984
Previous names	Market East Station (1984-2014) replaced Reading Terminal in 1984
Services
Preceding station   SEPTA   Following station Suburban Station via Center City Commuter Connection toward Airport Airport Line Temple University Terminus Suburban Station toward Chestnut Hill West Chestnut Hill West Line Suburban Station toward Elwyn Media/Elwyn Line Suburban Station toward Thorndale Paoli/Thorndale Line Suburban Station toward Trenton Trenton Line Suburban Station toward Newark Wilmington/Newark Line Suburban Station toward 30th Street Station Chestnut Hill East Line Temple University toward Chestnut Hill East Fox Chase Line Temple University toward Fox Chase Lansdale/Doylestown Line Temple University toward Doylestown Manayunk/Norristown Line Temple University toward Elm Street Suburban Station toward University City Warminster Line Temple University toward Warminster West Trenton Line Temple University toward West Trenton

Jefferson Station (formerly named and still frequently referred to as Market East Station) is an underground SEPTA Regional Rail station located on Market Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its official SEPTA address is 12th and Filbert streets. It is the easternmost of the three Center City stations on the SEPTA Regional Rail system, and is part of the Center City Commuter Connection, which connects the former Penn Central commuter lines with the former Reading Railroad commuter lines. The station opened in November 1984, is owned and maintained by SEPTA, and replaced the former Reading Terminal, under which a small part of the station sits. (The old terminal became part of the Pennsylvania Convention Center.)

The station is part of the Gallery at Market East, a shopping mall built as part of an urban renewal project in the late 1970s and early 1980s. There are several entrances to the station, including several on the concourse level to the "Gallery II" part of the mall. After the Convention Center was opened, a new entrance was built in the Reading Terminal headhouse on Market Street.

Architecturally, the design of Jefferson Station is integrated with the Gallery Mall, which features a number of stores and quick-service food facilities, including Tiffany's Bakery, which boasts state-of-the-art digital signage for the commuters passing through Jefferson Station. The newly renovated bakery uses television to display their original content as well as the SEPTA train timetable. Stainless steel and large plate-glass windows are a major design element throughout the station, with large color tile murals (depicting the four seasons) adorning the walls and the extensive use of tile for flooring. The upper seating area has recently been renovated with metal benches facing the windows that look down onto the tracks. The large windows are used both for exterior windows, where they admit light from street level down to track level like a clerestory, and for separating the concourse level from the track level. Because this is an underground station and the clerestory section is only a small part of the station, artificial lighting is used throughout the station.