40th Street Portal

40th Street Portal is a SEPTA Metro T station in Philadelphia. At this station's portal, four of the five trolley routes enter the Woodland Avenue subway portal after running on the street in Southwest Philadelphia and nearby suburbs. Eastbound trolleys run in the tunnel under the nearby campuses of the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University to Center City Philadelphia. Westbound trolleys travel to the Philadelphia neighborhoods of Eastwick and Angora and the Delaware County suburbs of Yeadon and Darby.

The station is located above ground at the entrance to the tunnel in a plaza between Woodland Avenue and Baltimore Avenue at 40th Street, adjacent to The Woodlands. When the tunnel is closed, trolleys are re-routed along 42nd Street to terminate at the 40th Street station of the L and do not serve this station. To get to the trolleys, passengers can catch SEPTA's Route 30 just outside of the station on Woodland Avenue to catch the trolleys along 42nd Street where the trolley diversion route begins, or at 40th and Market Streets. Alternately, when Route 30 buses are not serving this station (as some trips terminate at 40th and Market Street), passengers can also walk north on 40th Street 2 blocks to Spruce Street and catch trolleys for either direction there (outbound trolleys stop on 40th Street at Spruce Street before turning west onto Spruce Street and then south on 42nd Street before rejoining their respective normal routings; eastbound trolleys board on Spruce Street at 40th Street in front of the Copabanana restaurant before continuing east on Spruce Street, north on 38th Street, and west on Filbert Street to 40th Street where connections to the L trains can be made).