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SEPTA Route 15

Index SEPTA Route 15

SEPTA's Route 15, the Girard Avenue Line, is a trolley line, operated by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), along Girard Avenue through North and West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. [1]

61 relations: Bridesburg, Philadelphia, Broad Street Line, Brookville Equipment Corporation, Bus, Callowhill Depot, Carroll Park, Philadelphia, Conrail Shared Assets Operations, Direct current, Fairmount Park, Foreclosure, Frankford and Delaware Avenue station, Front Street (Philadelphia), Girard Avenue, Girard Avenue Bridge, Girard College, Girard station (Broad Street Line), Girard station (Market–Frankford Line), Heritage streetcar, Horsecar, Interstate 95 in Pennsylvania, Interurban, Kansas City, Missouri, Kawasaki Heavy Industries Rolling Stock Company, Labour law, Market–Frankford Line, North Philadelphia, Overhead line, Paoli/Thorndale Line, PCC streetcar, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania General Assembly, Philadelphia, Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike, Philadelphia Zoo, Port Richmond, Philadelphia, Railway Age, Railway electrification system, Reading Company, Regenerative brake, Richmond-Westmoreland Streets Loop, Schuylkill Expressway, Schuylkill River, SEPTA, SEPTA City Transit Division surface routes, SEPTA PCC II, SEPTA Route 10, SEPTA Route 15, SEPTA Route 23, SEPTA Route 56, SEPTA Route 60, ..., SEPTA Subway–Surface Trolley Lines, St. Louis, St. Louis Car Company, SugarHouse Casino, Transit bus, U.S. Route 30 in Pennsylvania, United States, United States dollar, Volt, Water supply network, West Philadelphia. Expand index (11 more) »

Bridesburg, Philadelphia

Bridesburg, the northernmost of Philadelphia's River Wards, is a river-front neighborhood in the Northeast section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Broad Street Line

The Broad Street Line (BSL)—also known as the Broad Street Subway (BSS), Orange Line, or Broad Line—is a subway line owned by the city of Philadelphia and operated by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA).

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Brookville Equipment Corporation

Brookville Equipment Corporation, based in Brookville, Pennsylvania, United States, manufactures railroad locomotives for industrial and light capacity switching needs.

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Bus

A bus (archaically also omnibus, multibus, motorbus, autobus) is a road vehicle designed to carry many passengers.

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Callowhill Depot

Callowhill Depot is a bus and trolley barn operated by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), located in West Philadelphia, near the Delaware County border.

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Carroll Park, Philadelphia

Carroll Park is a neighborhood in West Philadelphia.

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Conrail Shared Assets Operations

Conrail Shared Assets Operations is the commonly used name for modern-day Conrail (reporting mark CRCX).

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Direct current

Direct current (DC) is the unidirectional flow of electric charge.

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Fairmount Park

Fairmount Park is the largest municipal park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the historic name for a group of parks located throughout the city.

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Foreclosure

Foreclosure is a legal process in which a lender attempts to recover the balance of a loan from a borrower who has stopped making payments to the lender by forcing the sale of the asset used as the collateral for the loan.

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Frankford and Delaware Avenue station

Frankford and Delaware Avenue station, also known as the Northern Liberties Loop, is a SEPTA Route 15 trolley station in Philadelphia located in the Port Richmond neighborhood.

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Front Street (Philadelphia)

Front Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is a north-south street running parallel to and near the Delaware River.

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Girard Avenue

Girard Avenue is a major commercial and residential street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Girard Avenue Bridge

The Girard Avenue Bridge is an automobile and trolley bridge in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that carries Girard Avenue (U.S. Route 13) over the Schuylkill River.

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Girard College

Girard College is an independent college preparatory 5-day boarding school located on a 43-acre campus in the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the eastern United States.

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Girard station (Broad Street Line)

Girard is a subway station on the SEPTA Broad Street Line in the Francisville section of North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Girard station (Market–Frankford Line)

Girard station is a SEPTA elevated rapid transit stop in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the Market-Frankford Line.

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Heritage streetcar

Heritage streetcars or heritage trams are a part of the efforts to preserve rail traffic heritage.

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Horsecar

A horsecar, or horse-drawn tram, is an animal-powered (usually horse) tram or streetcar.

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Interstate 95 in Pennsylvania

Interstate 95 (I-95) is an Interstate highway running from Miami, Florida, north to Houlton, Maine.

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Interurban

The interurban (or radial railway) is a type of electric railway, with streetcar-like light electric self-propelled railcars which run within and between cities or towns.

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Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri.

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Kawasaki Heavy Industries Rolling Stock Company

is the rolling stock production division of Kawasaki Heavy Industries. Since beginning operations in 1906, the company has produced more than 90,000 Railroad cars.

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Labour law

Labour law (also known as labor law or employment law) mediates the relationship between workers, employing entities, trade unions and the government.

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Market–Frankford Line

The Market–Frankford Line (MFL) (also called the Market–Frankford Subway–Elevated Line (MFSE), the Market-Frankford El (MFE), the El, or the Blue Line) is a rapid transit line in Philadelphia, operated by SEPTA.

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North Philadelphia

North Philadelphia, nicknamed North Philly, is a section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States.

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Overhead line

An overhead line or overhead wire is used to transmit electrical energy to trams, trolleybuses or trains.

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Paoli/Thorndale Line

The Paoli/Thorndale Line, formerly known as the R5, is a SEPTA Regional Rail service running from Center City Philadelphia to Thorndale in Chester County on Amtrak's Philadelphia to Harrisburg Main Line which is part of the Keystone Corridor which in turn was once the Main Line of the Pennsylvania Railroad.

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PCC streetcar

The PCC (Presidents’ Conference Committee) is a streetcar (tram) design that was first built in the United States in the 1930s.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania German: Pennsylvaani or Pennsilfaani), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Pennsylvania General Assembly

The Pennsylvania General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike

The Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike, first used in 1795, is the first long-distance paved road built in the United States, according to engineered plans and specifications.

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Philadelphia Zoo

The Philadelphia Zoo, located in the Centennial District of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the west bank of the Schuylkill River, was the first true zoo in the United States.

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Port Richmond, Philadelphia

Port Richmond is a neighborhood in the River Wards section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Railway Age

Railway Age is an American trade journal for the rail transport industry.

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Railway electrification system

A railway electrification system supplies electric power to railway trains and trams without an on-board prime mover or local fuel supply.

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Reading Company

The Reading Company was a company that was involved in the railroad industry in southeast Pennsylvania and neighboring states from 1924 until 1976.

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Regenerative brake

Regenerative braking is an energy recovery mechanism which slows a vehicle or object by converting its kinetic energy into a form which can be either used immediately or stored until needed.

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Richmond-Westmoreland Streets Loop

The Richmond & Westmoreland Streets Loop is a transit loop located in the Port Richmond section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Schuylkill Expressway

The Schuylkill Expressway, locally known as "the Schuylkill", is a 4 to 8 lane freeway through southwestern Montgomery County and the city of Philadelphia, and the easternmost segment of Interstate 76 in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.

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Schuylkill River

The Schuylkill River is an important river running northwest to southeast in eastern Pennsylvania, which was improved by navigations into the Schuylkill Canal.

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SEPTA

The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) is a regional public transportation authority that operates bus, subway / elevated rail line, commuter and light rail line, and electric trolleybus services to nearly 4 million people in five counties in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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SEPTA City Transit Division surface routes

The City Transit Division of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) operates almost all of Philadelphia's public transit, including all 6 trolley, 3 trackless trolley and 70 bus lines within city limits.

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SEPTA PCC II

The PCC II is a series of upgraded PCC streetcars used by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for its Route 15-Girard Avenue.

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SEPTA Route 10

Route 10, also known as the Lancaster Avenue Line, is a trolley line operated by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) that connects the 13th Street station in Center City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to the 63rd Street–Malvern Avenue station in the Overbrook section of West Philadelphia.

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SEPTA Route 15

SEPTA's Route 15, the Girard Avenue Line, is a trolley line, operated by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), along Girard Avenue through North and West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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SEPTA Route 23

SEPTA's Trolley Route 23, the Germantown Avenue-11th & 12th Streets Line, is a former streetcar line now operated by bus.

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SEPTA Route 56

SEPTA's Trolley Route 56, the Erie and Torresdale Avenues Line is a streetcar line that is now served by bus.

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SEPTA Route 60

SEPTA's Trolley Route 60, the Allegheny Avenue Line is a former streetcar line and current bus route, operated by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) in Northwest and Northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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SEPTA Subway–Surface Trolley Lines

The SEPTA Subway–Surface Trolley Lines are a collection of five SEPTA trolley lines that operate on street-level tracks in West Philadelphia and Delaware County, Pennsylvania and also underneath Market Street in Philadelphia's Center City.

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St. Louis

St.

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St. Louis Car Company

The St.

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SugarHouse Casino

SugarHouse Casino is a casino entertainment development along the Delaware River in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's Fishtown neighborhood, one of five stand-alone casinos awarded a gaming license on December 20, 2006 by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board.

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Transit bus

A transit bus (also big bus, commuter bus, city bus, town bus, stage bus, public bus or simply bus) is a type of bus used on shorter-distance public transport bus services.

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U.S. Route 30 in Pennsylvania

In the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, U.S. Route 30 (US 30) runs east–west across the southern part of the state, passing through Pittsburgh and Philadelphia on its way from the West Virginia state line east to the Benjamin Franklin Bridge over the Delaware River into New Jersey.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (sign: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ and referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, or American dollar) is the official currency of the United States and its insular territories per the United States Constitution since 1792.

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Volt

The volt (symbol: V) is the derived unit for electric potential, electric potential difference (voltage), and electromotive force.

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Water supply network

A water supply system or water supply network is a system of engineered hydrologic and hydraulic components which provide water supply.

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West Philadelphia

West Philadelphia, nicknamed West Philly, is a section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Redirects here:

34th & Girard (SEPTA station), 34th Street station (SEPTA Route 15), 40th & Girard (SEPTA station), 40th Street station (SEPTA Route 15), 52nd & Girard (SEPTA station), 63rd & Girard (SEPTA station), 63rd Street station (SEPTA Route 15), Belmont & Girard (SEPTA station), Fairmount Park and Delaware River Passenger Railway, Girard Avenue Line, Girard Avenue Passenger Railway, Girard Avenue Railway, Girard Avenue Trolley, Girard Street Line, Girard Street line, Haddington Loop, Richmond and Schuylkill Passenger Railway, Richmond and Schuylkill River Passenger Railway, Route 15 (Philadelphia trolley), Route 15 (SEPTA), SEPTA Route 15 Trolley, SEPTA route 15.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEPTA_Route_15

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