15 Facts About PATCO Speedline

PATCO Speedline is a rapid transit route operated by the Port Authority Transit Corporation, which runs between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Camden County, New Jersey.

The Port Authority Transit Corporation and the PATCO Speedline are owned and operated by the Delaware River Port Authority.

In 2005, PATCO Speedline officials began planning a new route in the corridor of the originally proposed Route C that would serve Gloucester County and end in Glassboro on the grounds of Rowan University .

PATCO Speedline was one of the first transit systems to incorporate automatic train operation for regular service.

PATCO Speedline maintained the same interior styling in its vehicles from their introduction in 1969 through the end of the rebuilding process in 2018 with the 1980 PATCO Speedline II cars receiving the exact same look.

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Each PATCO Speedline car has a pair of doors on each side with a foyer area inside the doors for standing passengers.

PATCO Speedline announced plans for the complete refurbishment of the entire fleet with work expected to begin in 2009.

PATCO Speedline began to ship the railcars with their trucks removed and replaced with highway tires for the road trip to the Alstom facility in Hornell, New York, in March 2011.

PATCO Speedline trains are governed by a Pulse code cab signaling system which transmits signal codes to the trains via the running rails.

The entire PATCO Speedline system is run from Center Tower, centrally located above a substation near the Broadway station in Camden.

PATCO Speedline was one of the first transit systems to employ automated fare collection and tickets with magnetically stored data.

PATCO Speedline has five different fare zones and it is necessary to retain one's ticket to exit the station at the proper zone.

At the start of service in 1969, PATCO Speedline used a system of plastic tickets with an oxide layer on the entire back side for the magnetic encoding of data.

In July 2006, PATCO Speedline announced that it would start the transition from a magnetic ticket fare system to a contactless smart card system designed, built and integrated by Cubic Corporation, the firm responsible for the 1969 magnetic card system.

Originally, both transfers were going to be valid for 24 hours PATCO Speedline changed the time limit to prevent the unauthorized sale of PATCO Speedline transfers at Pennsylvania stations.