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Creek Road is a station on SEPTA's D2 line. The station is located at the rail line's intersection with Creek Road. Creek Road is essentially a trail, making this one of the few SEPTA stations that's either directly in or next to a major park. It's very likely that this is the least used station on the D2, though I'm still calculating ridership for the line.  Tour Trolley Creek Road is a very small station, its platforms barely fit the trolleys themselves.   Bench Obviously this station isn't accessible since the Kawasaki K-Car trolleys themselves aren't. Even without that though, Creek Road would still be inaccessible.  Stairs A lengthy staircase is the only way down The entire northbound platform The northbound platform is longer than the southbound platform. On the other side of that platform there's a line map. There's supposed to also be a full system map but that's missing. Instead...

Baltimore Avenue is a station on SEPTA's D2 line. The station is located at the line's intersection with Baltimore Avenue in the small town of Clifton Heights.  History Aerial photograph from the 1940s, showing the town and station, among other things Baltimore Avenue station was built in 1906 by the Philadelphia and West Chester Traction Company. It was unique in that it was built with an actual depot that one could buy tickets from. At some point between the P&WCTC rebranding as Red Arrow, Red Arrow absorbing the Philadelphia and Western railroad, Red Arrow closing at least half of its lines, and it eventually being absorbed by SEPTA, the depot was closed and boarded up. Not much else has happened since then. Tour The depot The old depot is all boarded up, and probably won't be fixed anytime soon.  Inbound platform There's really nothing much here.  Doors, a bench, and a bike rack A map ...

Marshall Road is a station on SEPTA's D2 Line. The station is located at Marshall Road in the Garretsford neighborhood of Upper Darby, PA.  Tour The full station There's not much here of note. This is essentially a trolley stop in the middle of a residential area. Most of the people who use this live nearby.  Outbound shelter Bench The outbound shelter is very small. This is common for a lot of SEPTA D1/D2 stations, or really a lot of tram/trolley/streetcar stations in general.  Outbound platform from the inbound platform Inbound platform, with outdated signage advertising the "102" Inbound bench The inbound shelter is larger, but not by a huge margin. Still, it's enough that multiple people can actually have shelter at once in the rain.  This is typical for many older D1/D2 stations as well. This shelter was probably made in the early 1900s, considering that many of those stations...

Walnut Street is a station on SEPTA's D1 and D2 lines. The station is located at Garretsford Road and Walnut Street in downtown Upper Darby, PA Tour Trolley Walnut Street is a generic trolley stop, not much interesting or important here. Not accessible, but the D1/D2 aren't accessible at all anyways.  Bench and platform Signpost I think there used to be a sign here advertising the new SEPTA Metro signage, but someone tore it down.  Inside the shelter This really is just a generic trolley stop. There is nothing special here to distinguish this stop from any other trolley stop along the combined D1-D2 line. Bus Connections Walnut Street Station has no bus connections, and it probably doesn't really need them. If you want to connect to a bus from the D1/D2, do it at 69th Street. In fact, none of the stations between Fairfield Avenue and Lansdowne Avenue have bus connections either. There is one...

Drexel Manor is a station on SEPTA's D2 line. The station is located near but not at 356 Cheswold Road in the Garettsford neighborhood of Upper Darby, PA. This station is one block away from Garettsford station and Marshall Road station on either side. At this point, Drexel Manor only exists to serve an apartment complex. Tour One of the only ways you can get to this station is by a path that's between two houses. Much unlike Parkview , there is no lollypop sign announcing what's there, the path just exists.  Stairs on the path   Nothing is accessible at this station. In all fairness, the D1, D2, and T stations are unable to be made accessible due to having inaccessible vehicles. The shelter The station has one small shelter located on the 69th Street bound platform. Shelters of this variety are all along the D1, D2, and 103, and were most likely built while the lines were owned by Red Arrow. At some point, all of the roofs of...

Sharon Hill is the outbound terminal station on SEPTA's D2 line, located on Chester Pike in the center of the streetcar suburb of Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania.  History Brillliner at Sharon Hill station The Philadelphia and West Chester Traction company built a line to the small village of Sharon Hill, PA in March 15th, 1906. Despite the changing of hands of the Sharon Hill Trolley, the station stayed remarkably similar to how it had always been.  Tour The station from the other side of Chester Pike Sharon Hill Trolley station is incredibly small, very similar looking to many of the other 102 stations.  The station building  Some of the D1 and D2 stations have very fancy shelters from the early 1900s, they look like small buildings, but they really are just shelters at the end of the day.   Bench  The inside of the shelter from the side   Clock   Pay Phone   ...