SEPTA "LOST"--The south concourse episode

Matthew Mitchell wrote:

rbreslow wrote:Very interesting. Does anyone know the address of the Regional Rail Spring Garden Station?

Ooh, ooh, ooh! Mr. Kotter! It was at 9th and Spring Garden.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alankin/2227382140/

Matt Mitchell
[never tires of telling people he was the last passenger at Spring Garden]

Wow, did you get any pics on the inside?

Whilst on another Website that deals with a totally different mode of travel, a link was posted to this site:

http://osric.com/chris/subway/

Which features a composite image of the old Concourse (apparently) and his (or her) reconstruction of the map... Kind of interesting, other than the fact Broad st is referred to as Broadway... still; that is one extensive concourse...

Cool

Patrick Boylan wrote:They may have obliterated any evidence, but it should be in the far northeast corner of 30th St subway station, if I remember correctly it was a hole in the north side wall, then right turn to stairs and sometimes moving stairs down.
At the 30th St PRR-Amtrak station end there were 3 sets of stairs in middle of the southwestern concourse. I hope I'm giving you the correct name, I'm talking about the passageway directly across the main Amtrak area from the ramp up to SEPTA's 30th St upper level.

What you are saying is correct, the moving stair went down turn to your left and it was a long hallway underground, at the end the hallway turn to your right and you would come right into 30th Street Station without happening to go outside!!

Hmmm, I was taking a lovely walk around 30th street station and saw on the side towards center city a roped off subway entrance. What the heck is this?

rbreslow wrote:Hmmm, I was taking a lovely walk around 30th street station and saw on the side towards center city a roped off subway entrance. What the heck is this?

On the upper level platform? There is no subway entrances along 29th Street (the side closest to Center City) but the stairs on the east end was closed off by order of AMTRAK and leads to the ACELA Club first class lounge.

Oh but there was and it was OUTSIDE of 30th street. What is it?

rbreslow wrote:Oh but there was and it was OUTSIDE of 30th street. What is it?

Which 30th Street Station? remember there are two completely separate ones.....

Try taking a picture and posting it.

The Amtrak-Regional Rail one. Next to it is a street subway entrance. Its on the sidewalk facing center city.

rbreslow wrote:The Amtrak-Regional Rail one. Next to it is a street subway entrance. Its on the sidewalk facing center city.

There are no subway entrances on the Center City/Schuylkill Avenue-29th Street side of 30th Street Station. Are you talking about, possibly, a flight of steps that goes down at the back of the island between the cab stand and the surface parking on the 30th Street side? I think those steps used to be another access to the rental car parking until closed off...or they lead to an area of the station accessed by authorized personnel only...

The only subway entrances currently are the two on the SW and NW corners of 30th & Market Street and an exit-only stair underneath the overhang of the former Bulletin building halfway up the block, plus the entrances on each side of Market Street at 31st under the High Line.

Well it looked like maybe for an old subway, or for the old rental car place you mentioned.