Swampoodle Connectionとは 意味・読み方・使い方

The Swampoodle Connection was a proposed connection of the present-day Chestnut Hill West Line with the Manayunk/Norristown Line in the Swampoodle neighborhood in Philadelphia. This connection, proposed by SEPTA in 1983 after taking over commuter rail operations from Conrail (which absorbed, in 1976, the commuter rail operations of the bankrupt Penn Central and Reading Railroads), would have allowed SEPTA trains from the Chestnut Hill West line, a former Penn Central route, to enter the Center City Commuter Connection on the ex-Reading side of the Regional Rail System without having to use Amtrak's Northeast Corridor between 30th Street Station and North Philadelphia Station, which routinely delayed Chestnut Hill West and Trenton Line trains due to the need to facilitate the movement of Amtrak services to New York City.