North Broad Street Station

North Broad
The former Reading Railroad North Broad station house on Broad Street.
Location	2601 North Broad Street near Lehigh Avenue Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Owned by	SEPTA
Line(s)	Lansdale/Doylestown Line   Manayunk/Norristown Line
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	4
Connections	Broad Street Line Local   Broad Street Line Ridge Spur SEPTA City Bus: 4, 16, 54
Construction
Parking	Street-side
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	C (Central Philadelphia)
History
Opened	1929
Electrified	1931
Traffic
Passengers (2013)	103 daily inbound boardings
Services
Preceding station   SEPTA   Following station Temple University toward 30th Street Station Lansdale/Doylestown Line Wayne Junction toward Doylestown Manayunk/Norristown Line Allegheny toward Elm Street   Former services   Preceding station   Reading Railroad   Following station Reading Terminal Terminus Crusader Wayne Junction toward Communipaw Columbia Avenue toward Reading Terminal Ninth Street Branch Wayne Junction toward Fern Rock Terminus Norristown Branch Allegheny toward Elm Street
North Broad Street Station, Reading Company
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	2601 North Broad Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Coordinates	39°59′32.5″N 75°9′16″W / 39.992361°N 75.15444°W / 39.992361; -75.15444Coordinates: 39°59′32.5″N 75°9′16″W / 39.992361°N 75.15444°W / 39.992361; -75.15444
Architect	Horace Trumbauer; Irwin & Leighton
Architectural style	Classical Revival
NRHP Reference #	96000325
Added to NRHP	March 28, 1996

North Broad station, known as North Broad Street until 1992, is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is located at 2601 North Broad Street (PA 611) in the Cecil B. Moore section of Lower North Philadelphia, and serves the Lansdale/Doylestown Line and the Manayunk/Norristown Line. The station has low-level platforms on the outside tracks, with "mini-high" platforms for wheelchair and ADA accessibility.

North Broad station is within a few blocks of the North Philadelphia SEPTA-Amtrak station (formerly belonging to the Pennsylvania Railroad), which serves Amtrak's Keystone Service and Northeast Regional and SEPTA's Trenton and Chestnut Hill West Lines, and the North Philadelphia subway station on SEPTA's Broad Street Line.

The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) built the Connecting Railway in 1867 to connect its main line to the Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad. By the early 1870s, New York Junction station was established where the Connecting Railway crossed over the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad mainline in North Philadelphia. By the early 1880s, the Reading established 16th Street station a block to the northwest.

In 1888, the Reading announced plans to add local stations on the line, including one next to the Baker Bowl, which had opened as the home of the Philadelphia Phillies in 1887. By 1891, the company offered service to Huntingdon Street station as well as 16th Street. The station had two side platforms serving the line's four tracks, with a small station building facing Broad Street and Huntingdon Street. 16th Street station was closed in the early 20th century.