Market East Station

Market East Station
Market East
SEPTA regional rail station
Market East entrance.JPG
11th Street entrance to Market East Station
Station statistics
Address 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
Lines
  Airport Line
  Fox Chase Line
  Lansdale/Doylestown Line
  Manayunk/Norristown Line
  Media/Elwyn Line
  Paoli/Thorndale Line
  Warminster Line
  West Trenton Line
  Wilmington/Newark Line
Connections
  Market–Frankford Line at 11th St. and 8th St.
  Broad Street Line Ridge Spur at 8th St.
  PATCO Speedline at 8th & Market Sts.
City Bus SEPTA bus routes 9, 17, 23, 33, 38, 44, 47, 47M, 48, 61, 62, 121
NJT Bus NJ Transit bus routes 313, 315, 316, 317, 318, 400, 401, 402, 404, 406, 408, 409, 410, 412, 414, 417, 551
Intercity Bus Greyhound Lines
Intercity Bus Bieber Tourways
Intercity Bus Trailways Transportation System(Capitol Trailways, Martz Trailways, Susquehanna Trailways)
Intercity Bus Peter Pan Bus Lines
Platforms 2 island platforms
Tracks 4
Other information
Opened November 1984
Accessible Handicapped/disabled access
Owned by SEPTA
Fare zone C
Services
Preceding station   SEPTA   Following station
Airport Line
Terminus
Chestnut Hill East Line
Chestnut Hill West Line
Terminus
Fox Chase Line
toward Fox Chase
Lansdale/Doylestown Line
toward Doylestown
Manayunk/Norristown Line
toward Elwyn
Media/Elwyn Line
Terminus
toward Thorndale
Paoli/Thorndale Line
toward Trenton
Trenton Line
Warminster Line
toward Warminster
West Trenton Line
toward Newark
Wilmington/Newark Line
Terminus

Market East Station is an underground SEPTA Regional Rail station located in the Market East neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its official SEPTA address is 12th and Filbert streets.[1] 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, which a small part of the station is directly under. (The old terminal became part of the Pennsylvania Convention Center.)

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Building

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 Market East station is integrated with the Gallery mall. Stainless steel and large plate-glass windows are a major design element, 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.

Station

The station extends under three city blocks and the platforms are along the northern edge of the blocks. The tracks here are the deepest ones in Philadelphia.

Tiled wall across from boarding platforms

There are several monitors which show the status of the trains at these entrances, as well as near the ticket windows and at the tops of the escalators to the track level. At least one of the ticket windows, which are located on the concourse level, is open daily.

There are two wide island platforms and four tracks, with each platform serving two tracks. Each platform is divided into an "A" section and a "B" section so that trains on different routes stop at different spots along the platform length. This allows waiting passengers to be dispersed along the platform rather than congregating.

Overhead electric catenary wires supply power to the trains. Due to ventilation issues, diesel trains do not stop in the station, but sometimes a SEPTA diesel work train will go through the station without stopping. In this situation, the track must be clear through the tunnel before the diesel train is allowed through.

To the west, the tracks have a set of cross-over tracks that allow trains to change tracks before they reach Suburban Station. To the east, there is a sharp curve north where trains are limited to about 20 to 25 mph (32 to 40 km/h), and then another set of cross-overs before climbing an incline of over 2.5% to Temple University Station. Market East Station is approximately 0.5 miles (0.80 km) from Suburban Station.

Service

Market East Station is served by all Regional Rail lines except the limited-service Cynwyd Line, which terminates at Suburban Station. In FY 2005, the average total weekday boardings at this station was 11,848, making it the second busiest station in the Regional Rail system.[2] Market East Station has also been identified as Amtrak's preferred Philadelphia station for future high-speed rail lines in the Northeastern Corridor.

Intermodal Connections

The station is connected underground to SEPTA's heavy rail Market-Frankford Line and Broad-Ridge Spur and also the PATCO High Speed Line at their shared 8th Street station. There is also below-ground pedestrian connections to the Market-Frankford Line's 11th Street, 13th Street, and 15th Street stations. Market East Station is adjacent to various SEPTA and New Jersey Transit bus routes that travel on Market Street. Finally, the Philadelphia Greyhound Terminal is immediately north of the station across Filbert Street.


References

External links

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