Woodland Avenue (SEPTA Route 101 station)
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Woodland Avenue is a stop along the SEPTA Media (Route 101) trolley line. It is officially located on Woodland Avenue(PA 420
) & Rolling Road in Springfield, Pennsylvania
, though Rolling Road is actually a block north of the tracks. A school and athletic field exists at the end of that intersection.
Trolleys arriving at this station travel between 69th Street Terminal
in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania and Orange Street in Media, Pennsylvania
. The station has a shed with a roof on the south side of the tracks where people can go inside when it is raining. Like Providence Road stop in Media, a storage track begins northeast of Woodland Avenue across from the station shed that eventually becomes the second track. Part of the reason for the single track is because the Crum Creek Bridge in Smedley Park only carries one track.
Pennsylvania Route 420
Pennsylvania Route 420 is a short, north–south state highway in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The route runs from Pennsylvania Route 291 in Tinicum Township, a short distance west of the Philadelphia International Airport, to Pennsylvania Route 320 in Springfield Township.-Route...
) & Rolling Road in Springfield, Pennsylvania
Springfield Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania
Springfield Township, or simply Springfield, is a township and a Census Designated Place in Delaware County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The population was 23,677 at the 2000 census...
, though Rolling Road is actually a block north of the tracks. A school and athletic field exists at the end of that intersection.
Trolleys arriving at this station travel between 69th Street Terminal
69th Street Terminal
69th Street Transportation Center is a SEPTA terminal in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. It is also the southwestern terminus of Philadelphia's EL, the Market-Frankford Line ....
in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania and Orange Street in Media, Pennsylvania
Media, Pennsylvania
The borough of Media is the county seat of Delaware County, Pennsylvania and is located west of Philadelphia. Media was incorporated in 1850 at the same time that it was named the county seat. The population was 5,533 at the 2000 census. Its school district is the Rose Tree Media School District...
. The station has a shed with a roof on the south side of the tracks where people can go inside when it is raining. Like Providence Road stop in Media, a storage track begins northeast of Woodland Avenue across from the station shed that eventually becomes the second track. Part of the reason for the single track is because the Crum Creek Bridge in Smedley Park only carries one track.