36th Street 

 Pennsauken-Route 73  

Pennsauken Transit Center opened as an infill station on the RiverLINE on October 14, 2013, with an infill station opening on the Atlantic City Line that same day, connecting the two New Jersey Transit Rail Lines in South Jersey, and allowing continuous rail service (albeit with two transfers) between stops on the Atlantic City Line and the rest of the New Jersey Transit Rail network on trains owned and ticketed by New Jersey Transit.

The station cost $39.747 million, nearly all paid for by the Obama-era Recovery Act. It is the only significantly federally funded asset of the RiverLINE since the state's Transportation Trust Fund was used to the pay for the rest of the lines entire $476 million 2004 numbers opening day construction costs. The line wasn't constructed using Federal Funds because planners knew wouldn’t have met cost-benefit thresholds required for Federal aid. The station wasn't originally construction because of the expense of building the Atlantic City Line station since these train tracks cross-over the RiverLINE track's on a high bridge, as they approach the Delair Bridge to cross the Delaware River into Pennsylvania.

The RiverLINE platform consists of a single side platform along the single RiverLINE track. This platform runs from just south of the grade-crossing with Derousse Avenue before ending basically under the Atlantic City Line tracks above the station. The RiverLINE platform contains a single red shelter in the same style as the other RiverLINE stations. Decorative ceramic tiles line the columns holding up the canopy is part of the same River Rail Revival Art installation that is located at the rest of the RiverLINE stations, artwork here is of animals including birds butterflies and crabs.

This platform contains two short walkways and a longer ramp at the southern end of the platform. These all lead down to the western side of the transit center's 268 parking spaces. The entrance to the Atlantic City Line platforms is along the southern side of this parking lot, near the southern entrance to the platform. The station's bays are just beneath the Atlantic City Line embankment with ADA parking spaces closest to the RiverLINE platform. All parking at the station is free.
Photos 1-36: September 1, 2024;

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Looking out from an Atlantic City Line platform down at the River LINE platform

The sidewalk to an entrance to the River Line platform from the Atlantic City Line platforms

Across from the southern end of the River LINE platform with a gradual ramp leading up to it

The platform canopy viewed from the station's parking lot

ADA parking spaces, some grass, and the River LINE platform

Looking out at the fairly large parking lot, fairly busy on a Sunday (its helps that all NJT Trains are free because of a Fare Holiday)

The sidewalk to leave the station, leading to a suburban neighborhood just beyond the station

Entrance to the station parking lot, the Atlantic City Line (and its former catenary towers) are the major station landmark

The New Jersey Transit police have installed an overlook tower at a corner of the parking lot

Entrance sign for the Pennsauken Transit Center

Looking across from the nearby street at the statino parking lot and Atlantic City Line platforms in the distance

Sign for the Transit Center on the street, and the River LINE's grade-crossing in the distance

A bus drops off at the bus loop closer to the Altnatic City Line station entrance

Signs for a sepcial only half-hourly schedule, and busing advisory on the River LINE platform windscreen

Mosaics of birds, water and butterflies in the same style as the rest of the River LINE even though this stop opened as an infill station

An extra large sign for Pennsauken Transit Center for Trains to Camden and Trains to Trenton

DMU #3513 crosses under the Atlantic City Line as it approaches the station

DMU #3513A coming to a stop at the front of the platform at the back of a Trenton-bound one car train

A smaller Pennsauken Transit Center platform sign as a crowd gathers around one of two doors to board the just arrived Trenton-bound train

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Street Level:
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Atlantic City Line

Last Updated: November 16, 2024
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