The station was constructed by the Philadelphia Transportation Company in 1955, a replacement for the nearby 24th Street station just north of Market Street at the east end of the now-removed shared train and trolley bridge over the Schuylkill River.

The former station site is now the Crown Lights Building (a tall rectangular black skyscraper topped with four large LED message boards atop its upper sides), the headquarters of PECO Energy.

The PRT bridge connected surface trolley lines in West Philadelphia to the underground subway–surface loop in Center City.

[3] The tunnel from 23rd to 32nd streets was completed by 1933, but construction on the remaining segment was put on hiatus due to the Great Depression and World War II.

The PRT bridge that formerly had carried subway cars and subway–surface trolleys over the river was torn down by June 20, 1956.