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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...

Ellsworth-Federal is a station along SEPTA's Broad Street Line, specifically served only by the B1. Ellsworth-Federal is located on Broad Street, between Ellsworth and Federal Streets.  History  Ellsworth Street entrance Ellsworth-Federal station was built in the late 1930s, much like the rest of the South Philadelphia stations of the Broad Street Subway. Outside of the history of the rest of the South Philadelphia stations - which will not be mentioned here, Ellsworth-Federal station has a lot of interesting things in its history. More than anything, it's name and location in themselves are incredibly interesting.  Those who know little about the history of the area will wonder why the station is not at the nearby large cross street of Washington Avenue. Those who do know more will realize that the station itself predates the time when Washington Avenue was much more than the right of way for the PRR Washington Avenue branch, which serviced all of the South P...

Fern Rock Transportation Center is a station that serves multiple SEPTA services located in the Fern Rock neighborhood of Philadelphia, PA.  History The old Tabor station, 1972 The history of Fern Rock Transportation Center is really the history of three different places becoming one: Fern Rock Station, Fern Rock Yard, and Tabor Station. In order to understand the history of Fern Rock Transportation Center, one must understand the history of both of these places. Tabor Station Platforms Tabor station was a train station along the Reading Railroad's Bethlehem Branch, immediately after the famed Wayne Junction station. It was built sometime in the early 1900s, near the now (mostly) nonexistent Tabor Junction. This was the intersection between the Reading Railroad's Tabor Branch and the North Penn Railroad. This junction is located at the nearby Tabor Road, hence the name of the junction and by extension the station. At some point between 1893 a...