Suburban Station

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Suburban Station
Station statistics
Address	16th Street & JFK Boulevard Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Lines	R1 R2 R3 R5 R6 R7 R8
Connections	Broad Street Line Market–Frankford Line Subway–Surface Trolleys
Platforms	5 island platforms
Tracks	8
Other information
Opened	September 28, 1930
Rebuilt	January 9, 2007 (completion)
Accessible
Owned by	Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority
Fare zone	C
Traffic
Passengers (2005)	5.692 million ▼ 7%
Services
Preceding station   SEPTA   Following station 30th Street Station toward Airport Terminals R1 Market East Station toward Glenside 30th Street Station toward Newark R2 Market East Station toward Warminster 30th Street Station toward Elwyn R3 Market East Station toward West Trenton 30th Street Station toward Thorndale R5 Market East Station toward Doylestown 30th Street Station toward Cynwyd R6 Market East Station toward Elm Street, Norristown 30th Street Station toward Trenton R7 Market East Station toward Chestnut Hill East 30th Street Station toward Chestnut Hill West R8 Market East Station toward Fox Chase

Suburban Station Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location:	1617 John F. Kennedy Blvd. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates:	39°57′7.38″N 75°10′28.79″W / 39.95205, -75.1746639Coordinates: 39°57′7.38″N 75°10′28.79″W / 39.95205, -75.1746639
Built/Founded:	1929
Architect:	Graham, Anderson, Probst & White; Stewart, Joseph, & Co.
Architectural style(s):	Art Deco
Added to NRHP:	September 05, 1985
NRHP Reference#:	85001962[1]
Governing body:	Private

Suburban Station is an underground commuter rail station in the Penn Center district of Center City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its official SEPTA address is 16th Street and JFK Boulevard. [1] Operated by SEPTA (the transit authority for the Philadelphia area). It is one of the three core Center City stations on the SEPTA Regional Rail. It was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad to replace the original Broad Street Station and opened on September 28, 1930. Suburban Station was a stub-end terminal station with 8 tracks and 4 platforms until the Center City Commuter Connection project extended four of those tracks eastward to the new Market East Station. The recently renovated 21-story building above is also the core of the Penn Center office complex, and is known as One Penn Center at Suburban Station. (Conductors often call out the name of this station as, "Penn Center Suburban Station.")

All SEPTA Regional Rail trains stop at this station. All run through except those on the R6 Cynwyd line as well as some limited/express trains which terminate on one of the stub-end tracks at this station. Through trains usually change crews at this station.

The station has an extensive concourse level above track level. This concourse has SEPTA ticket offices, retail shops and restaurants, and access to other SEPTA stations and to several Center City buildings. The connections include the Broad Street Line at the City Hall station and the Market-Frankford Line and Subway-Surface Lines at the 15th Street station.

The concourse of the station has undergone a major renovation, completed in January 2007. [2] Upgrades included increased retail space, an improved HVAC system, and a restored/refurbished waiting area. The station is now in full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. The Comcast Center, which will be built on the north side of its block, near Arch Street, will also add a "winter garden" on the south side, where the train tracks run several feet below, that will serve as a new main entrance to the station.

[edit] History

When the station opened, it was a stub-end terminal for Pennsylvania Railroad trains serving Center City Philadelphia, replacing the above-ground Broad Street Station in this function. The station's full name was originally Broad Street Suburban Station. One Penn Center served as the headquarters of the PRR from 1930 to 1957.

Plans for a tunnel to link the Pennsylvania and Reading commuter lines were floated as early as the 1950s, but funding to seriously study the project did not start until the late 1960s. The project languished in the 1970s due to lack of funding for the construction until federal money was appropriated during Philadelphia mayor Frank Rizzo's time in office.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• SEPTA - Suburban Station
• Pennsylvania Railroad - Suburban Station (Pennsylvania Railroad Stations; Past & Present)

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