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Oregon is a station along SEPTA's Broad Street Subway. The station is served by the B1 service.  History Oregon station opened with the extension of the Broad Street Line to Pattison Avenue as an infill station. This was done as the area around Broad and Oregon had been growing in popularity for many years, and a lot of new housing had been constructed in the area. The station itself opened on April 8th, 1973 with NRG station. Tour One of the head houses Oregon station is designed in such a way that the mezzanines are at ground level, which made station construction much cheaper than otherwise. There are two of these headhouse/mezzanine combinations on either side of Oregon Avenue.  Said head house from the other side The fare gates inside that headhouse The other end lacks fare gates Escalator The platform Train Elevator Stairs Oh and...

Frankford and Knights Loop, also known as City Line Loop, is a bus loop located at Frankford Avenue and Knights Road in Philadelphia's Crestmont Farms neighborhood.  Routes Serving the Loop 129 bus laying over Frankford and Knights Loop has four bus connections in total. Route 66 : This bus goes between Frankford Transportation Center and Frankford and Knights Loop via Frankford Avenue. This bus is a trolleybus route, one of the three in the city. It was formerly a trolley, and this is the reason for the existence of this loop.  Route 129: This bus goes between Frankford and Knights Loop and Oxford Valley Mall in what is possibly the longest way possible. Along the way it serves Bensalem, Newportville, Bristol, Levittown, and Penndel, before going to Oxford Valley and ending at Oxford Valley Mall.  Route 130: This bus goes from Frankford and Knights Loop to Newtown, going to PARX Casino and Neshaminy Mall along the way, as well as linking Bensalem ...

Waterfront Entertainment Center is the southern terminus station on NJT's River Line located on the Camden Waterfront. This station exists to serve FreedomMortgage Pavillion, which oftentimes has things like concerts, and formerly a baseball team.  Tour River Line train This station is pretty similar to other River line stations but not quite.  Track 1 platform Industrial spur to Yorkship Track 2 platform Instead of there being a northern or southern track here, there are two terminal tracks and a switch. That's one of the only things making Waterfront Entertainment Center different from any other River Line station at all.  The surrounding area Much of the area around Waterfront Entertainment Center is just parking. So much parking. Do you need this much parking? Does anyone need this much parking? More parking FreedomMortgage Pavilion, which the station is basically named aft...

Colmar is a station on SEPTA's Lansdale - Doylestown line, located in the village of Colmar in southern Hatfield Township, PA, at the junction of the Lansdale - Doylestown line and Pennsylvania State Route 309.  History Old station building The building was originally built by the North Pennsylvania railroad in 1856 as Line Lexington Station, though the station itself was not in the nearby village of Line Lexington.  The station was renamed in 1871 to Colmar, as was the village of Colmar Sometime around 20 or so years ago, the station was rebuilt.  Tour Train at Colmar station Colmar station is like your average Doylestown Branch station. That is, a shelter on a full - high platform in the middle of nowhere. Most of them except for Lansdale, Link Belt, Delaware Valley University, and Doylestown have the exact same design of shelter. See? Colmar is not much different than most of those stations.  Benches The ...

Delaware Valley University is a station on SEPTA's Lansdale - Doylestown line, located in Farm School, Doylestown Township, PA, immediately outside Doylestown Borough.  History Old station shack wasn't much different This station was built by the Reading Railroad at some point in the late 1890s for National Farm School, and agricultural school. Unsurprisingly, this caused the station to be named Farm School, which caused the town itself to be named Farm School.  National Farm School ended up changing its name a few times, shown in the timeline below 1896: National Farm School - first name 1948: National Agricultural College 1960: Delaware Valley College of Science and Agriculture 1989: Delaware Valley College  2014: Delaware Valley University - Current Name Naturally, the train station changed names a few times as well to reflect this. While the university was changing names a few times, the train station ended up getting rebuilt some time around 2...