Spring Garden (SEPTA Broad–Ridge Spur station)

Infobox Station
name=Spring Garden
type=SEPTA rapid transit station


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image_caption=
address=Spring Garden Street and Ridge Avenue
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
line=rail color box|system=SEPTA|line=Broad Street|note=Ridge Spur
other=
platform=2 side platforms
tracks=2
opened=December 21, 1932
closed=1991 (due to crime and low ridership)
owned=SEPTA
services=s-rail|title=SEPTA

Spring Garden was a station on SEPTA's Broad–Ridge Spur, located at Spring Garden Street and Ridge Avenue. The station was opened on December 21, 1932 between Fairmount and Chinatown stations, and eventually closed in 1991. When it first opened, the station was a busy commuter station filled with passengers each day, however, by the 1980s, the station became very run down. Ridership drastically dropped at the time, and the neighboring area around Spring Garden Street became inundated with drug traffic and other crime. To avoid any potential threats of criminal activity, SEPTA closed down the station and sealed off the entrances with galvanized metal, redirecting passengers to the Spring Garden station at Broad Street, only two blocks west.

Today, the former Spring Garden station can only be seen from Broad–Ridge Spur trains traveling between Fairmount and Chinatown stations. The station is dimly lit by only four fluorescent bulbs, and is filled with trash and layers of graffiti that has been developed over the years.

References

*cite web|url=http://world.nycsubway.org/us/phila/broadstreet.html|title=Broad Street Subway|publisher= world.nycsubway.org|accessdate=2007-02-20
*cite book|last = Lake|first = Matt|title = Weird Pennsylvania|series = Weird U.S. series|publisher = Sterling Publishing Co.|date = 2005|location = New York|pages = 255-256|isbn = 1402732791