North Broad (SEPTA station)

North Broad SEPTA regional rail
Signal bridge at Broad Street and Lehigh Avenue at the end of the platforms of North Broad station.
Station statistics
Address	2601 North Broad Street near Lehigh Avenue Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Lines	Lansdale/Doylestown Line   Manayunk/Norristown Line
Connections	Broad Street Line Local   Broad Street Line Ridge Spur SEPTA City Bus: 4, 16, 54
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	4
Parking	Street-side
Other information
Opened	1929
Accessible
Owned by	SEPTA
Fare zone	C (Central Philadelphia)
Services
Preceding station   SEPTA   Following station Temple University toward 30th Street Station Lansdale/Doylestown Line Wayne Junction toward Doylestown Manayunk/Norristown Line Allegheny toward Elm Street, Norristown
North Broad Street Station, Reading Company
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location:	2601 North Broad Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Coordinates:	39°59′49.01″N 75°9′18.35″W
Architect:	Horace Trumbauer; Irwin & Leighton
Architectural style:	Classical Revival
Governing body:	Private
NRHP Reference#:	96000325
Added to NRHP:	March 28, 1996

North Broad (known as North Broad Street until 1992) is a SEPTA Regional Rail station at 2601 North Broad Street (PA 611) south of Lehigh Avenue along the SEPTA Main Line. Unlike most stations, such as Wayne Junction, only the Lansdale/Doylestown Line and Manayunk/Norristown Line serve this station, while most trains pass by the station. The station has low-level platforms on the outside tracks, with "mini-high" platforms for wheelchair and ADA accessibility.

The historic 1929 station building on Broad Street, closed and sold by the Reading Railroad in the early 1960s, is now in use by a different occupant and is sealed off from the platforms, although the name engraved on the building ("North Broad Street Station") remains. Just across Broad Street to the west is the site of Baker Bowl, which was the home of the Philadelphia Phillies from 1887 through June 1938. The triangular building visible in the station photo here was originally a Ford Motor Company building, and appears in the background of many photos of Baker Bowl. North Broad Street Station replaced an earlier station, named Huntingdon Avenue, on the same site.

The 1929 station featured two island platforms which served all four tracks, connected by an underground walkway to the station, street, and the Broad Street Subway's North Philadelphia Station. All of these platforms and passages were removed or backfilled in 1992 as part of SEPTA's RailWorks bridge replacement project, in order to increase train speeds and to rationalize the platform area needed down to current boarding levels. The minimalist modular platforms are made of treated wood, allowing for ease of maintenance and replacement.

North Broad Station is within a few blocks of the North Philadelphia SEPTA-Amtrak station (formerly belonging to the Pennsylvania Railroad), which serves Amtrak's Keystone Service, Northeast Regional and SEPTA's Trenton and Chestnut Hill West Lines, and the North Philadelphia subway station on SEPTA's Broad Street Line.

External links

• SEPTA - North Broad Station
• Broad Street entrance from Google Maps Street View