5th Street/Independence Hall station
SEPTA rapid transit station | |||||||||||
General information | |||||||||||
Location | Fifth & Market Streets Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 39°57′02″N 75°08′56″W / 39.9505°N 75.1488°W | ||||||||||
Owned by | City of Philadelphia, leased to the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority | ||||||||||
Line(s) | |||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
Connections | Philadelphia PHLASH | ||||||||||
Construction | |||||||||||
Structure type | Underground | ||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | 1908 | ||||||||||
Electrified | 700 volts DC | ||||||||||
Services | |||||||||||
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5th Street/Independence Hall is a subway station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the corner of 5th Street and Market Street, served by SEPTA's Market-Frankford Line.
The station is known as 5th Street/Independence Hall on the Market-Frankford Line. It is the only station on the line within the Center City Philadelphia limits where riders must exit the station and cross the street if they wish to travel in the opposite direction; no underground cross-walk is provided.
Riders departing at 5th Street/Independence Hall have easy access to such Philadelphia landmarks as the Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, the National Constitution Center, the National Museum of American Jewish History, the Philadelphia Bourse[1] and Philadelphia's Federal Courthouse.
As of 2011, 5th Street/Independence Hall Station is one of SEPTA's Market-Frankford Line stations to be wheelchair accessible.
Station layout
G | Street Level | Entrances/Exits |
M | Mezzanine | to entrances/exits, fare control |
P Platform level |
Side platform, doors will open on the right | |
Westbound | ← Market–Frankford Line toward 69th Street (8th Street) | |
Eastbound | → Market–Frankford Line toward Frankford (2nd Street) → | |
Side platform, doors will open on the right |
SEPTA City Bus Connections
- SEPTA Routes 17, 33, 38, 44 and 48.
Image gallery
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Site of the now demolished KYW AM Radio & TV building, where an entrance to Fifth Street station can barely be seen behind the newsstand.
References
External links
- SEPTA - 5th Street MFL Station
- 5th Street-Independence Station images (World-NYCSubway.org)
- 5th Street entrance from Google Maps Street View