Broad Street Line
Fern Rock Transit Center to NRG Station · 24 stations across 3 services · 40.2 min end to end
The Broad Street Line runs straight under Broad Street, from Fern Rock Transit Center in the north to NRG Station next to the South Philadelphia stadiums. It is the only line on this network that runs three different services on the same track, and knowing which one is pulling in matters: the local calls at all 22 stops, the express calls at 8 of the 24, and the Ridge Avenue spur leaves the main line after Fairmount altogether, for Chinatown and 8th-Market.
That is why the stop lists below are given per service and not per line, and why the frequency table has three rows for the B. Adding them together would say a train comes every minute and a bit, which is not the wait for any train you can actually catch.
The line in pictures
Every stop on the Broad Street Line
In running order, from Fern Rock Transit Center to NRG Station. A ring marks a station where another line stops too — and there, the platforms are separate.
Stop on this lineEnd of the lineTransfer, different platform
Fern Rock Transit Center → NRG Station
22 stations · 10.36 mi (16.68 km) · 40.2 min end to end
Three services, three different stop lists
Which of the three is pulling in changes where you can get off. This is the stop list of each, taken from the timetable itself.
Broad Street Line Local
Calls at every stop, all day, every day.
- Fern Rock Transit Center
- Olney Transit Center
- Logan
- Wyoming
- Hunting Park
- Erie
- Broad-Allegheny
- North Philadelphia
- Susquehanna-Dauphin
- Cecil B. Moore
- Broad-Girard
- Fairmount
- Broad-Spring Garden
- Race-Vine
- 15th St/City Hall
- Walnut-Locust
- Lombard-South
- Ellsworth-Federal
- Tasker-Morris
- Snyder
- Oregon
- NRG Station
- 22 stops of the 24 on the line
- 40.2 min end to end
- 922 trips a weekday, both directions
Broad Street Line Express
Weekdays only, and it ends at Walnut-Locust rather than NRG Station.
- Fern Rock Transit Center
- Olney Transit Center
- Erie
- Broad-Girard
- Broad-Spring Garden
- Race-Vine
- 15th St/City Hall
- Walnut-Locust
- 8 stops of the 24 on the line
- 19.8 min end to end
- 118 trips a weekday, both directions
Broad-Ridge Spur
Leaves the main line after Fairmount and runs to Chinatown and 8th-Market along Ridge Avenue.
- Fern Rock Transit Center
- Olney Transit Center
- Erie
- North Philadelphia
- Broad-Girard
- Fairmount
- Chinatown
- 8th-Market
- 8 stops of the 24 on the line
- 19.2 min end to end
- 258 trips a weekday, both directions
How often trains run
Typical gap between trains in each part of the day, in the first direction of travel.
| Service | Day | Early morning before 7 am | Morning peak 7–9:30 am | Midday 9:30 am – 3:30 pm | Afternoon peak 3:30–6:30 pm | Evening 6:30–9 pm | Late night after 9 pm |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broad Street Line Local | Monday to Friday | every 9 min | every 7 min | every 7 min | every 7 min | every 11.2 min | every 12 min |
| Broad Street Line Local | Saturday | every 15 min | every 10 min | every 10 min | every 10 min | every 11.5 min | every 12 min |
| Broad Street Line Local | Sunday | every 16 min | every 12 min | every 10 min | every 10 min | every 12 min | every 12 min |
| Broad Street Line Local | Holiday service | every 16 min | every 12 min | every 8 min | every 10 min | every 12 min | every 12 min |
| Broad Street Line Express | Monday to Friday | every 8.1 min | every 7 min | every 14 min | every 7 min | — | — |
| Broad-Ridge Spur | Monday to Friday | every 11.2 min | every 7 min | every 14 min | every 7 min | every 19.5 min | — |
| Broad-Ridge Spur | Saturday | every 20 min | every 20 min | every 20 min | every 20 min | every 20 min | — |
First and last train
Departures from the end of the line. Times after midnight are marked, because this timetable runs past it — the last trains of the night leave after 2 am.
| Service | Day | Direction | First train | Last train | Trips |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broad Street Line Local | Monday to Friday | towards NRG Station | 4:40 am | 12:04 am (next day) | 140 |
| Broad Street Line Local | Monday to Friday | towards Fern Rock TC | 4:51 am | 12:15 am (next day) | 140 |
| Broad Street Line Local | Saturday | towards NRG Station | 4:40 am | 12:04 am (next day) | 108 |
| Broad Street Line Local | Saturday | towards Fern Rock TC | 4:51 am | 12:15 am (next day) | 108 |
| Broad Street Line Local | Sunday | towards NRG Station | 4:40 am | 12:04 am (next day) | 104 |
| Broad Street Line Local | Sunday | towards Fern Rock TC | 4:51 am | 12:15 am (next day) | 104 |
| Broad Street Line Local | Holiday service | towards NRG Station | 4:40 am | 12:04 am (next day) | 109 |
| Broad Street Line Local | Holiday service | towards Fern Rock TC | 4:51 am | 12:15 am (next day) | 109 |
| Broad Street Line Express | Monday to Friday | towards Walnut-Locust | 5:47 am | 6:01 pm | 59 |
| Broad Street Line Express | Monday to Friday | towards Fern Rock TC | 6:17 am | 6:30 pm | 59 |
| Broad-Ridge Spur | Monday to Friday | towards 8th St Station | 5:24 am | 8:34 pm | 85 |
| Broad-Ridge Spur | Monday to Friday | towards Fern Rock TC | 5:45 am | 8:58 pm | 85 |
| Broad-Ridge Spur | Saturday | towards 8th St Station | 6:16 am | 8:37 pm | 44 |
| Broad-Ridge Spur | Saturday | towards Fern Rock TC | 6:46 am | 9:15 pm | 44 |
Where you can change lines
Three places on this network have two lines under one name. In all three the platforms are separate.
| Station | Change to | Platforms | Walking time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15th St/City Hall | L | different platforms | not published |
| 8th-Market | L | different platforms | not published |
Stations on this line without full step-free access
| Station | What the data says |
|---|---|
| Logan | No step-free access |
| Wyoming | No step-free access |
| Hunting Park | No step-free access |
| Erie | No step-free access |
| Fairmount | No step-free access |
| 15th St/City Hall | Step-free on some platforms only |
| Lombard-South | No step-free access |
| Ellsworth-Federal | No step-free access |
| Snyder | No step-free access |
| Chinatown | No step-free access |
Across the whole network 42 of the 70 stations are declared step-free, 23 are not and 5 have platforms declared differently from each other. The accessibility page has the full table and the lift and stair counts for the six biggest complexes.
Questions about the Broad Street Line
24, from Fern Rock Transit Center to NRG Station. They are all listed above in running order, each one linked to its own page with first and last train and what is nearby.
40.2 min one way and 37.8 min the other, measured as the last arrival minus the first departure of a complete trip — not as a sum of the gaps between stations, which is where other guides lose minutes.
On a weekday the first train is at 4:40 am and the last leaves at 12:15 am (next day). The schedule page has all four kinds of day, including the two holidays that get a timetable of their own.
$2.90, the same on every line and whatever you pay with. Two of the four ways to pay also give you up to 2 free transfers within 2 hours; the other two do not. The fares page says which is which.
The local calls at all 22 stops. The express calls at 8 of them and runs weekdays only, ending at Walnut-Locust rather than carrying on to NRG. The Ridge Avenue spur leaves the main line after Fairmount and runs to Chinatown and 8th-Market, two stations no other service reaches.
Not as a rule — it ends at Walnut-Locust. There are 65 extra express trips to NRG scattered over 18 dates in the published window, and the data does not say why, so this site does not guess. They are on the schedule page.
These are the scheduled times, read from the published open data and recomputed every day. The service panel on the front page adds service notices on top of them.