Editing PATCO Speedline (section)

{{Short description|Rapid transit system in New Jersey and Pennsylvania}}
{{Use American English|date=May 2025}}
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{{Infobox rail line
| name                            = PATCO Speedline
| logo                            = PATCO Speedline.svg
| logo_width                      = 100px
| color                           = {{rcr|PATCO}}
| image                           = PATCO Rebuilt.jpg
| caption                         = PATCO Speedline train at the [[Lindenwold station]] in 2017
| type                            = [[Rapid transit]]
| status                          =
| locale                          = [[Philadelphia]], Pennsylvania, and [[Camden County, New Jersey]]
| start                           = {{stn|15–16th & Locust}}
| end                             = {{stn|Lindenwold}}
| stations                        = 14
| daily_ridership                 = {{American transit ridership|NJ PATCO daily}} ({{American transit ridership|dailydate}}){{American transit ridership|dailycitation}}
| ridership2                      = {{American transit ridership|NJ PATCO annual}} ({{American transit ridership|annualdate}}){{American transit ridership|annualcitation}}
| open                            = {{Start date and age|1969|01|04}}
| close                           =
| owner                           = [[Delaware River Port Authority]]
| operator                        = Port Authority Transit Corporation
| character                       = Underground, surface, and elevated ([[grade separation|grade separated]])
| stock                           = 120 [[electric multiple unit]]s
| linelength                      = {{Convert|14.2|mi|abbr=on}}
| tracklength                     =
| tracks                          =
| gauge                           = {{RailGauge|ussg|allk=on}}
| electrification                 = {{750 V DC|conductor=third rail}}
| speed                           = {{Convert|30|mph|abbr=on}} ({{Tooltip|avg.|average speed (including stops)}})<!-- Calculated using 14.2 mile length and 28 minute end to end run time --><br />{{Convert|65|mph|abbr=on}} ({{Tooltip|top|top speed}})
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The '''PATCO Speedline''', signed as the '''Lindenwold Line''' in Philadelphia and commonly referred to as the '''PATCO High Speed Line''',<ref>{{cite news |author=Graham, Troy |date=January 7, 2011 |title=Man attacked, robbed in Mellon Center concourse |url=http://articles.philly.com/2011-01-07/news/27015058_1_concourse-hair-appointment-federal-workers |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726005636/http://articles.philly.com/2011-01-07/news/27015058_1_concourse-hair-appointment-federal-workers |archive-date=July 26, 2011 |access-date=January 27, 2011 |newspaper=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]}} The concourse connects to the Market-Frankford Line, the Ridge Avenue spur line, and the '''PATCO High Speed Line'''.</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Stillwell, Eileen |date=January 20, 2011 |title=Google Transit features PATCO schedule |url=http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20110120/NEWS01/110120043/Google-Transit-features-PATCO-schedule |access-date=January 27, 2011 |newspaper=Courier-Post}} "If you're not a regular user of the '''PATCO Hi-Speedline'''"</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Barna, John |date=January 6, 2011 |title=DRPA to look at sale of PATCO |url=http://www.nj.com/gloucester/index.ssf?/base/news-6/1294302327240670.xml&coll=8 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414130700/http://www.nj.com/gloucester/index.ssf?%2Fbase%2Fnews-6%2F1294302327240670.xml&coll=8 |archive-date=April 14, 2016 |access-date=January 27, 2011 |newspaper=Gloucester County Times}} "Exploring the sale or privatization of the '''PATCO High Speed Line'''"</ref> is a [[rapid transit]] route operated by the '''Port Authority Transit Corporation''' ('''PATCO'''), connecting [[Philadelphia]], Pennsylvania, with [[Lindenwold, New Jersey|Lindenwold]] in [[Camden County, New Jersey]].

The line runs underground in Philadelphia, crosses the [[Delaware River]] on the [[Benjamin Franklin Bridge]], continues underground through Downtown Camden, and then operates predominantly at grade or on elevated track between Camden and Lindenwold. Both PATCO and the Speedline are owned and operated by the [[Delaware River Port Authority]]. Service began on January 4, 1969, between Lindenwold and Camden, with full service to Philadelphia commencing on February 15, 1969. The Speedline integrates the historic [[Bridge Line (Delaware River)|Bridge Line]], originally opened in 1936 between Philadelphia and Broadway Station in Camden, with newly constructed infrastructure along a former commuter rail corridor between Camden and Lindenwold.

The PATCO Speedline operates 24&nbsp;hours a day, one of only a few U.S. mass transit systems to do so.{{efn|name=fn2|The others are the [[New York City Subway]], [[Staten Island Railway]], the [[Red Line (CTA)|Red]] and [[Blue Line (CTA)|Blue Lines]] of the [[Chicago "L"]], and the [[PATH (rail system)|PATH]] system.}} In {{American transit ridership|annualdate}}, the line recorded {{American transit ridership|NJ PATCO annual}} total rides, or about {{American transit ridership|NJ PATCO daily}} per weekday in {{American transit ridership|dailydateasof}}.