![]() Outbound Route 36 trolley at 40th Street Portal station | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Location | 40th Street, Woodland Avenue and Baltimore Avenue Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 39°56′58″N 75°12′12″W / 39.9495°N 75.2033°W | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Owned by | SEPTA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Platforms | 3 side platforms | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tracks | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Structure type | At grade | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Accessible | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | 1955 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 40th Street Portal, also known as simply 40th Street station, is a SEPTA Subway-Surface Lines trolley station in Philadelphia. At this station's portal, four of the five Subway-Surface Lines enter the Woodland Avenue subway tunnel after running on the street in Southwest Philadelphia and nearby suburbs. Eastbound trolleys run in the tunnel under the nearby campuses of the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University to Center City Philadelphia. Westbound trolleys travel to the Philadelphia neighborhoods of Eastwick and Angora and the Delaware County suburbs of Yeadon and Darby.
The station is located above ground at the entrance to the tunnel in a plaza between Woodland Avenue and Baltimore Avenue at 40th Street, adjacent to The Woodlands. When the tunnel is closed, trolleys are re-routed along 42nd Street to terminate at the 40th Street station of the Market–Frankford Line and do not serve this station.