Burnham & Company, designed the structure, originally known as Pennsylvania Station–30th Street in accord with the naming style of other Pennsylvania Stations. The Chicago architectural firm of Graham, Anderson, Probst and White, the successor to D.H. (Because of the Great Depression and World War II, Broad Street station remained open until 1952.)
station also handled a large commuter operation, which the new underground Suburban Station was built to handle. Broad Street Station was a stub-end terminal in Center City where through trains had to back in and out, and the company wanted a location which would accommodate trains between New York City and Washington. This allowed the company to build both Suburban Station and the 30th Street Station, which replaced Broad Street station as the latter was too small. The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR), which was headquartered in Philadelphia, acquired tunnel rights from the Schuylkill River to 15th Street from the city of Philadelphia in return for land that the city needed to construct the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. On an average day in fiscal 2013, about 12,000 people boarded or left trains at 30th Street Station, nearly twice as many as from the rest of Pennsylvania stations combined. Its IATA Airport Code is ZFV, used primarily by a codeshare agreement allowing United Airlines to sell Amtrak service between the station and Newark Liberty International Airport.ģ0th Street Station is Amtrak's third-busiest station in the nation, and by far the busiest of the 24 stations served in Pennsylvania, hosting 4,411,662 passengers in fiscal year 2017. The building, which first opened in 1933, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.Īmtrak's code for the station is PHL. The station is located at 2955 Market Street in Philadelphia's University City neighborhood, just across the Schuylkill River from Center City. The station, which served more than four million inter-city rail passengers in 2018, is Amtrak's third-busiest, after Penn Station in Manhattan and Union Station in Washington, D.C., and the 12th-busiest train station in North America.ĭescription The former West Philadelphia station being removed during construction of 30th Street Station in January 1931
The station is also served by several SEPTA city and suburban buses and by NJ Transit, Amtrak Thruway, and intercity operators. The station is also a major commuter rail station served by all SEPTA Regional Rail lines and is the western terminus for NJ Transit's Atlantic City Line. It is metropolitan Philadelphia's main railroad station and a major stop on Amtrak's Northeast and Keystone corridors. Gray III 30th Street Station, is a major intermodal transit station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. 30th Street Station, officially William H.
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