{"id":2864,"date":"2023-06-16T01:30:56","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T01:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/what-did-delaware-boy\/"},"modified":"2023-06-16T01:30:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T01:30:56","slug":"what-did-delaware-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/what-did-delaware-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"What Did Delaware, Boy?"},"content":{"rendered":"
She Wore A Brand New Jersey!<\/span><\/p>\n Travelling east from Philadelphia, you cross the Delaware River to enter New Jersey. The first community you reach is Camden.<\/p>\n In the early days, you made the crossing by ferry.<\/p>\n This picturesque terminus was in Camden …<\/p>\n … and that on the Philadelphia side was at Penn’s Landing. Whether William Penn actually landed there is a matter of conjecture and convenient history!<\/p>\n It became part of Philadelphia’s industrial waterfront …<\/p>\n … with the area now a poshed up tourist destination.<\/p>\n But the ferry still runs …<\/p>\n … but more for tourism than essential commuting!<\/p>\n What changed things was the Benjamin Franklin Bridge …<\/p>\n … which opened in 1926.<\/p>\n As well as multiple lane of rubber tyred traffic, it has two walkways set above the car deck on stilts …<\/p>\n … and, tacked on to both outer edges of the road deck, the tracks for the PATCO Speedline.<\/p>\n Like the Purple Norristown Line, this is standard gauge track (4 feet 8 1\/2 inches) and powered by third rail. So it has no physical connection with the metro lines in Philadelphia.<\/p><\/div>\n The line has its own terminus underground at “15th\/13th and Locust” (Streets<\/span>) …<\/p>\n … where it has the “flavour” of the Paris Metro.<\/p>\n A couple of tight turns (dashed RED line<\/span>\u00a0on map below) takes it over the bridge.<\/p>\n It continues underground in Camden, having re-plunged below near the tollgate for the bridge. It’s in there, somewhere, plunging!<\/p>\n At Broadway (route map upper left) …<\/p>\n … it offers interchange with buses and a New Jersey tram line …<\/p>\n … of which more in a weekend variety blog! The red line soon comes into daylight …<\/p>\n The Bridge Line (subtle name, eh?) was never very successful providing only a relatively expensive centre to centre link; and, by the early 1950s, frequencies had been cut and evening and Sunday serviced withdrawn.<\/p><\/div>\n … and a still of the terminus at Lindonwold.<\/p>\n Here there is interchange with the rather quaint “Atlantic City Line”.<\/p>\n Finally, here is part of the current PATCO RED line timetable (click to enlarge<\/span>) …<\/p>\n … showing a 15 minute service Monday to Friday. Trains run every 20 min on Saturday and every 30 on Sunday.<\/p><\/div>\n But a different kind of fencing? Earlier, fbb just posed the fence …<\/p>\n … and posed a question. Why are window frames stuck to the railings?<\/p><\/div>\n