The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority operates a 25-hertz traction power system in the vicinity of Philadelphia. The system, which SEPTA inherited from the Reading Company, is similar
SEPTA Lansdale substation
Electrification power infrastructure at Lansdale, Pennsylvania. 24 kV (top) feeders are directed into the substation and 12 kV feeders (bottom) return to the catenary.
Original 1930s autotransformer equipment installed by the Reading Railroad.
Media/Wawa Line
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The Media/Wawa Line is a SEPTA Regional Rail service that runs from Center City Philadelphia west to Wawa in Delaware County. It uses the West Chester Branch, which connects with the SEPTA Main Line a
SEPTA's 25 Hz traction power system
…Reading substations. It also owns several substations that are electrically part of Amtrak's 25-Hz system, including former PRR substations along the Media/Wawa Line and the Chestnut Hill West Line, and a newer substation just north of 30th Street Station. The Reading Company electrified its lines between Reading…
SEPTA Regional Rail train at 49th Street station on what was then the Media/Elwyn Line in 2011
Elwyn, terminus of the line from 1986 to 2022
Wawa Station in August 2022
Tower Theater Upper Darby 69th Street 2007