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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...

Bartram Avenue is a station on SEPTA's 102/D2 line. The station is located at Bartram Avenue in Collingdale.  Tour Trolley at Bartram Avenue  Bartram Avenue is an extremely simple station, one that is also very small.  The platforms Bartram Avenue has two platforms, but only one track shared between them both.  Maps and schedules The shelter and bench The shelter, from another angle There is absolutely nothing here of note whatsoever.  Points of Interest near Bartram Avenue There's not much near Bartram Avenue station. Besides houses, cemetaries, and a small park, there is also St. Joseph's Place. St. Joseph's Place is a complex consisting of a Catholic church, Catholic school, and a retirement home. Besides this, most in the area only use this station to get to or from their houses.  Statistics Name: Bartram Avenue   Agency: SEPTA Line(s): D2 Locality: Collingdale...

Grove Street is the northern terminus station on NJT's Grove Street line, one of the two lines of the Newark Light Rail. The station is located at Grove Street in Bloomfield, New Jersey.  History Original Grove Street station Grove Street was originally the name of a station along the DL&R's main line. The original station was built in 1901, and served as a station all the way until 1991.  By that point it served the Gladstone and Morristown lines before being discontinued and later demolished.  Immediately after this, NJT decided to extend the western branch of the Newark Light Rail further from Franklin Avenue station into Silver Lake and Bloomfield. To do so, the choice was made to disconnect part of the former DL&R Orange Branch from the rest of the American rail system. This section went as far as the branchline's intersection with Grove Street at the town line between Silver Lake and Bloomfield. The station was named the exact same de...

Branch Brook Park is a station on NJT's Grove Street branch of the Newark Light Rail (NLR), located at 5th Street in the city of Newark, New Jersey. Branch Brook Park is the final station on the Grove Street line in Newark.  History Before Branch Brook Park, there was Franklin Avenue and Heller Parkway stations. Franklin Avenue used to be the terminus station, with a loop for the PCCs used on the Newark Light Rail.  In 2001, NJT phased out usage of the PCCs, and in doing so went through with a planned extension to Bloomfield. This required Franklin Avenue station to be rebuilt. Considering that Franklin Avenue and Heller Parkway stations were extremely close to eachother, NJT decided to hit two birds with one stone and merge both stations into one station. This new station was near Branch Brook Park, the largest park in Newark, so what better to call the station than Branch Brook Park?  Today, the remains of Heller Parkway station is still able to ...