49th Street is a railway station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania along the SEPTA Media/Elwyn Line. It is located at 49th Street & Chester Avenue and is handicap accessible. The station is a sheltered-shed on one of two platforms in a park-like setting on the southwest corner of 49th and Chester. The other platform contains a ramp to the Chester Avenue bridge.
Chester Avenue carries the SEPTA Route 13 trolley, which is part of the Subway-Surface Trolley system. 49th Street itself contains an alternate trolley line used as the Subway-Surface Line's diversion services when the tunnels are closed.
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