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Spring Garden Street station

Coordinates: 39°57′43″N 75°09′11″W / 39.961943°N 75.153057°W / 39.961943; -75.153057
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Spring Garden Street
The abandoned building at left in 2009
History
Opened29 January 1893 (1893-01-29)
Closed1984
Services
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Reading Viaduct
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Reading Viaduct
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Reading Viaduct
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Reading Viaduct
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Reading Viaduct
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Reading Viaduct
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Spring Garden Street station is a former train station in the Poplar neighborhood of Philadelphia. It was built by the Reading Railroad and located on the Reading Viaduct. Service to Spring Garden Street ended in 1984 with the opening of the Center City Commuter Connection, which bypassed the Reading Terminal.

History

Spring Garden Street was build adjacent to the old Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad depot at Ninth and Green, which had opened in 1851. Ninth and Green had been the primary Philadelphia terminal of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad since 1879 and the Reading had outgrown the facility.[1] To replace it, the Reading constructed the Reading Terminal on Market Street, roughly 1 mile (1.6 km) to the south. Reading Terminal was linked to the existing railway line by a new elevated route carried by the Reading Viaduct. Spring Garden Street was built to serve the elevated route. Both it and Reading Terminal opened on January 29, 1893, although the Spring Garden Street station building was not completed and tickets had to be purchased at Ninth and Green.[2] Ninth and Green would remain open as a freight-only building until 1909, when it was demolished to permit additional track elevation.

Spring Garden Street remained in use until 1984, when the new Center City Commuter Connection opened.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Old Ninth and Green Streets Depot, Philadelphia, to be Demolished". International Railway Journal. XVII (3): 25–26. June 1909.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: year (link)
  2. ^ "Changes in Reading Train Service". Railway World. 19 (11): 246. March 18, 1893.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: year (link)
  3. ^ Feldman, Vincent D. (2014). City Abandoned: Charting the Loss of Civic Institutions in Philadelphia. Philadelphia, PA: Paul Dry Books. p. 132. ISBN 978-1-58988-082-5.

39°57′43″N 75°09′11″W / 39.961943°N 75.153057°W / 39.961943; -75.153057