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23rd and Venango loop is a SEPTA bus loop located on 23rd Street, Venango Street, and Hunting Park Avenue in the Nicetown neighborhood of North Philadelphia.    Buses That Stop Here Two buses stop at 23rd-Venango Loop, they are:   33 - Penns Landing to 23rd-Venango: This is an L shaped route that links neighborhoods like Nicetown, Allegheny, Cecil B. Moore, Sharswood, Francisville, and Fairmount to Center City via 19th/20th Streets and 22nd Street.  This bus links 23rd-Venango Loop to Allegheny station on the Manayunk-Norristown Line 56 - 23rd-Venango or Bakers Centre to Torresdale-Cottman: This bus is a crosstown bus that goes along Erie and Torresdale Avenues. This bus links directly to the B1/B2/B3 at Erie Station and the L at Erie/Torresdale station Tour Some route 56 buses at the station   23rd-Venango is a small bus loop, though it doesn't really need to be all that large.  One of the shelters Each shelter has...

Wynnefield Avenue is a station on SEPTA's Cynwyd Line, located at the intersection of Bryn Mawr and Wynnefield avenues in Philadelphia's Wynnefield neighborhood. Wynnefield Avenue station is also oftentimes just known as Wynnefield.  Wynnefield Avenue is along SEPTA's Cynwyd Line, which boasts the lowest ridership among every SEPTA line.  History Wynnefield station in 2012 Very little about the history of Wynnefield Avenue is known. All that is known is that the station was rebuilt in 2019.  Tour There's not much at Wynnefield station, but that's more than enough. Wynnefield Avenue is not a station that needs a lot of frills. Stairs Small parking lot Map and schedule The platform Wynnefield Avenue is accessible, like all of the Cynwyd line stations.  The shelter The ramp Bus Connections There is one bus connection at Wynnefield Avenue: the 40. The ...

49th Street is a station on SEPTA's Media/Wawa line. The station is located at 49th and Chester in Philadelphia's Kingsessing neighborhood. 49th Street is a Zone 1 station.  History The old 49th Street station  It's relatively unknown when there started being a train station in the location where 49th Street station is today. The station was known to have existed by 1886, and the line it was on started construction in 1852. The station did not originally exist at the time and most likely was added as an infill station in the 1860s or 1870s.  Any old station house in the area was most likely demolished in the 1950s-1960s, replaced by a few small shelters. Years later, some ramps and mini-high platforms were added to make the station accessible. Not much else has changed since then. Tour Path to the station  The shelter for the outbound platform For some reason, the shelter at the outbound platform is very far away from t...

Arrott Transportation Center is a station on SEPTA's L line, located at Frankford Avenue and Arrott street in the center of Frankford, a neighborhood in Lower Northeast Philadelphia. The station is a regional bus hub as well.  History 75 bus at the busway Arrott Transportation Center is a very old station, its existence going back to 1922. Originally, the station was named Margaret-Orthodox-Arrott, but the Arrott was dropped after SEPTA took over in favor of what is simply "Margaret-Orthodox". Meanwhile, the bus terminal was called "Arrott Bus Terminal". It was around the time of this renaming that the last trolleys in the area, the 59 and 75, were replaced by trolleybuses.  For decades, this change stuck, confusing people who were not familiar with the area all the while. This finally changed in 2014, when Margaret-Orthodox station was renamed to Arrott Transportation Center. This was a hallmark for a major change to come for the station...

Wyoming is a station along SEPTA's Broad Street Subway, served by the B1 service. The station is located at Broad Street and Wyoming Avenue, in the Logan neighborhood of Philadelphia.  Tour The entrance. A closer look at one of the entrances A very sad corner in the staircase The staircase Much like every other BSL station, there are at least two maps, one for the B and one of the main SEPTA maps as well.  Much of the inside of the station outside of the faregates The giant fence that cuts through the station It's pretty clear how similar this station is to Fairmount station, right down to the giant fence that cuts the entire station in half. Somehow, this feels worse than there just being a wall there.  Wyoming, like every other subway station without express service made by the City of Philadelphia has a mosaic wall The platform The tracks,...