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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...

Springfield Mall Transportation Center is an intermodal station located at Baltimore Pike and Sproul Road in Springfield Township, Delaware County, PA.  History Springfield Mall station was built as part of the Philadelphia and West Chester Traction Company's Media line, in 1913. For many years, the station was aptly named Sproul Road. Through a series of acquisitions, the line eventually became a part of SEPTA. Around the same time this happened, Springfield Mall opened very close by to the Sproul Road station. For the purposes of boosting ridership and promoting the mall, SEPTA decided to rename Sproul Road to Springfield Mall, a decision that has not been reversed since. Tour Springfield Mall Transportation Center really consists of three parts: The trolley station, the mall, and the bus bays.  The Trolley Station There's not much to this station, it's your average SEPTA suburban trolley station. There is a singular bench i...

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 ...

Chelten Avenue is a station on SEPTA's Chestnut Hill West line, located on Chelten avenue in West Germantown.  History Chelten station in 1916 Chelten station was created by the Pennsylvania Railroad for their rail line to Fort Washington/Whitemarsh in 1884 or so as "Germantown station" but was renamed to "Chelten station" to distinguish it from the Philadelphia and Germantown railroad's Germantown station. Not long after this, A branch to Chestnut Hill was made, which had three new stations, this branch quickly becoming more popular than the branch to Fort Washington itself. Chelten station quickly became a very popular station, as Germantown itself was a popular destination where many lived, (and still do live). Sometime around 1916, the Pennsylvania Railroad started a project for grade separating the line at Chelten Avenue itself, as this area had high traffic. The current station was finished in 1918.  The 1950s brought great chan...