THE GS TRAM SITE

PHILADELPHIA

PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES

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1963


Philadelphia streetcar Philadelphia underground tunnel

Philadelphia tram map - 1963

INSET: CENTRAL PHILADELPHIA

Philadelphia downtown tram map –  1963



I created the above maps by overlaying OpenStreetMap (OSM) maps with my own data. Copyright on the OSM maps is © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under a CC-BY-SA (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 licence).

Please note that the OSM maps used as templates for these maps correspond to the situation at the time the maps were downloaded and may show features that did not exist at the time the GS Tram Site is supposed to show. In particular, they may show bridges and highways that were built later.


ROUTES

Operator: Philadelphia Transportation Company (PTC)

STREETCAR ROUTES

  6 Olney Av. - Ogontz Av. - Cheltenham Av.
10 City Hall - Market Street (subway) - Lancaster Av. - Overbrook
11 City Hall - Market Street (subway) - Woodland Av. - Darby
13 City Hall - Market Street (subway) - Chester Av. - Yeadon
15 Callowhill - Girard Av. - Port Richmond
23 Bigler St. - 11th St. [Back: 12th St.] - Germantown Av. - Chestnut Hill
34 City Hall - Market Street (subway) - Baltimore Av. - Angora
36 City Hall - Market Street (subway) - Lindbergh Blvd. - Elmwood Av. - Eastwick (88th St.)
47 Wolf St. - [9th St. - 7th St.] [Back: 8th. St.] - 5th St. - Godfrey Av.
50 Oregon Av. / Ritner St. - 5th St. [Back: 4th. St.] - 5th St. - Wyoming Av. - Rising Sun Av. - Cheltenham
53 Luzerne St. - Erie Av. - Wayne Av. - Carpenter Lane
56 Hunting Park Av. - Erie Av. - Torresdale Av. - Cottman Av.
60 35th St. - Allegheny Av. - Port Richmond
62 Yeadon - Darby

SUBWAY ROUTES

BR Broad Street Spur Line Fairmount - Chinatown - 8th St. Stn. - 15th/16th & Locust
BS Broad Street (Orange) Line Fern Rock - Olney Av. - Erie Stn. - North Phildelphia Stn. - Girard Stn. - Fairmount - City Hall - Snyder Stn.
MF Market-Frankford Line 69th St. Terminal - Market St. - City Hall - 8th St. Stn. - Girard St. - Frankford Terminal

Operator: Port Authority Transit Corporation (PATCO)

SUBWAY ROUTE

BL Bridge Line 15th/16th & Locust - 8th St. Stn. - Benjamin Franklin Bridge - Camden Broadway

Note that the route abbraviations BR, BS, MF and BL are for the convenience of this site only, and were not used by the operators.

Operator: Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company (Red Arrow Lines)

LIGHT RAIL ROUTES

   69th St. Terminal - Radnor - Bridgeport - Norristown
   69th St. Terminal - Ardmore
   69th St. Terminal - Drexel Hill - Springfield - Media
   69th St. Terminal - Drexel Hill - Clifton - Sharon Hill


CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM

NETWORK LENGTH



HISTORY

GAUGE


SOURCES

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WIKIS

WEB SITES


Special thanks to Russell Powers from Denver CO for information on the history of the Philadelphia system and to Jerry Silverman for pointing out that it is Strafford, not Stafford.


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