T (SEPTA Metro)

A Route 11 (T4) trolley at Drexel Station at 30th Street
Overview
Locale	Philadelphia, Yeadon, and Darby, Pennsylvania
Termini	13th Street  63rd–Malvern/Overbrook  61st–Baltimore/Angora  Yeadon  Darby Transit Center (T3 limited)  80th Street/Eastwick
Stations	8 underground stations 8 major surface stations
Website	septa.org/schedules/T
Service
Type	Trolley
System	SEPTA Metro
Services	(Lancaster Avenue)  (Baltimore Avenue)  (Chester Avenue)  (Woodland Avenue)  (Elmwood Avenue)
Operator(s)	SEPTA City Transit Division
Depot(s)	Callowhill, Elmwood
Rolling stock	Kawasaki Type K LRV cars
Daily ridership	31,894 (FY 2023)[1]
History
Opened	1906 (1906)
Technical
Line length	39.6 miles (63.7 km)[2]
Character	Underground and surface
Track gauge	5 ft 2+1⁄4 in (1,581 mm) Pennsylvania trolley gauge[3][4]
Electrification	Overhead line, 600 V DC
Route map Show interactive map Legend SEPTA Main Line to Glenside to Frankford Transit Center 13th Street 15th Street/City Hall 15th Street/City Hall Suburban 19th Street 22nd Street Schuylkill River Northeast Corridor 30th Street Drexel Harrisburg Subdivision NEC/Keystone Corridor 32nd Street Tunnel 33rd Street to 69th Street Transit Center to Overbrook via Lancaster Ave 36th Street Portal 36th–Sansom 37th–Spruce 40th Street Portal to Angora via Baltimore Ave to Darby Transit Center via Chester Ave to Eastwick via Elmwood Ave to Darby Transit Center via Woodland Ave This diagram: view talk edit Show route diagram map

The T,^[a] formerly known as the Subway—Surface Trolley Lines, is a light rail trolley system of the SEPTA Metro serving Philadelphia and Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The system comprises five trolley services that operate on street-level tracks in West Philadelphia and Delaware County, and also underneath Market Street in Philadelphia's Center City. The services—T1, T2, T3, T4, and T5—collectively operate on about 39.6 miles (63.7 km) of route.^[2]

Like Boston's Green Line and San Francisco's Muni Metro, the T is the descendant of a pre-World War II streetcar system. It also shares many similarities with the premetro and stadtbahn systems of continental Europe. Where Boston and San Francisco's systems use longer, articulated LRT vehicles, Philadelphia uses rigid vehicles roughly 4 feet (1,219 mm) longer than the PCC streetcar they replaced. The lines use Kawasaki Type K LRVs delivered in 1981–82. The cars are similar to those on the Media–Sharon Hill Line 100 series, SEPTA's suburban trolley routes, which were delivered around the same time. However, the T cars are single-ended and use trolley poles, while the suburban lines use double ended cars and pantographs for power collection.

In 2023, SEPTA signed a contract with Alstom for 130 new low-floor trolleys to be delivered. These cars are scheduled to be delivered from 2027 through 2030.

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