D (SEPTA Metro)

D (Media–Sharon Hill Line)
Route 102 at Sharon Hill station
Overview
Locale	Delaware County, Pennsylvania
Termini	69th Street Transportation Center Media–Orange Street (D1/Route 101) Sharon Hill (D2/Route 102)
Stations	52
Website	septa.org/schedules/D
Service
Type	Light rail
System	SEPTA Metro
Services	Route 101  Route 102
Operator(s)	SEPTA Suburban Division
Rolling stock	SEPTA Series 100
Daily ridership	Route 101: 3,844 Route 102: 3,888 (FY 2019)[1]
History
Opened	1906
Technical
Line length	11.9 miles (19.2 km)
Character	Surface (at-grade)
Track gauge	5 ft 2+1⁄2 in (1,588 mm) Pennsylvania trolley gauge[2][3]
Electrification	Overhead lines
Route map Show interactive map Legend to Frankford to Norristown 69th Street to 69th Street Yard & Shops formerly to West Chester & Ardmore West Yard Fairfield Avenue Walnut Street Avon Road Hilltop Road Beverly Boulevard Congress Avenue Drexel Park Irvington Road Drexel Hill Junction D1 D2 Huey Avenue Garrettford School Lane Drexel Manor Aronimink Marshall Road Anderson Avenue Creek Road Drexelbrook Darby Creek Drexeline Baltimore Avenue Darby Creek Penn Street Scenic Road Springfield Road Brookside–Springfield Clifton–Aldan Saxer Avenue Shisler Avenue closed Leamy Avenue Providence Road Woodland Avenue Magnolia Avenue Thomson Avenue North Street Springfield Mall Bartram Avenue Paper Mill Road Andrews Avenue I-476 MacDade Boulevard Pine Ridge Chester Pike/Sharon Hill Beatty Road Providence Road/Media Manchester Avenue Edgemont Street Monroe Street Jackson Street Olive Street Veterans Square Orange Street/Media This diagram: view talk edit Show route diagram map

The D,^[a] formerly known as the Media—Sharon Hill Line (MSHL), is a light rail line in the SEPTA Metro network serving portions of Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The line compromises of two services which terminate at 69th Street Transportation Center in Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania: Route 101 (currently rebranding as D1) to Media and Route 102 (currently rebranding as D2) to Sharon Hill. Service is operated by the Suburban Transit Division of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA). Altogether, the two services operate on approximately 11.9 miles (19.2 km) of route.^[5] The line is one of the few remaining interurban systems in the United States, along with the South Shore Line in Illinois and Indiana, the River Line in New Jersey, and the Norristown High Speed Line, also in the Philadelphia area.

Along with the Norristown High Speed Line, formerly the Philadelphia and Western Railroad, the routes are the remaining lines of the Red Arrow Lines Trolley System once operated by the Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company (successor to the Philadelphia and West Chester Traction Company); some local residents still call them "Red Arrow".

The line uses 29 Kawasaki Heavy Industries Rolling Stock Company Type K LRV cars similar to those used on the SEPTA subway–surface trolley lines. However, unlike the city cars, the Type K cars on Routes 101 and 102 are double-ended and use pantograph collection instead of trolley poles.

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