Buses replaced the streetcars on the remaining portion of the Route 6 on January 11, 1986, and the Route '6 Bus' renamed Route 22 on the same date to eliminate confusion over the current Route 6. Additionally, the plan involved the closing of the SEPTA Route 50 trolley line along Rising Sun Avenue, although Route 6 trolleys were allowed to remain in service a little longer. Despite public criticism by community and transit advocates, SEPTA voted to close the Route 6 trolley line on October 23, 1985.

The remaining trolley service operated south of Cheltenham & Ogontz Avenues Loop (Cheltenham Square Mall). Bus service known as '6 Bus' (See below). Buses replaced trolleys north of Cheltenham Avenue to Willow Grove on J(PCC 2134 was the last trolley to Willow Grove). This was once a popular trolley line to Willow Grove Amusement Park (current location of the Willow Grove Park Mall). In 1929 the line was extended to Broad Street and Olney Avenue a year after the opening of the Olney Terminal on the Broad Street Line. The Route 6 trolley in Cheltenham TownshipĪs one of the newer trolleys to be adopted by SEPTA, the Route 6 trolley was established by the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company (PRT) in 1907, although some sources claim it was established in 1924, as the Glenside Line between the Willow Grove Depot and the City Line and Ogontz Avenue via Limekiln Pike. Starting on September 30, 1968, Route 6 streetcar service was transferred the new transit authority, SEPTA, and buses replaced Route 6 service on January 12, 1986. Route 6 was cut back to a loop and terminus at Ogontz & Cheltenham Avenues at the City Line. PCC streetcars were assigned to Route 6 beginning June 20, 1948. Streetcar service to Willow Grove Park ended on Jwhen the Pennsylvania Highway Department (predecessor to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation) acquired portions of the private right-of-way on Limekiln Pike for construction of the soon to be built Pennsylvania Route 309 Expressway.

Route 6 begins at the Olney Transportation Center, a core station of the Broad Street Line, principally traversing Ogontz Avenue in Philadelphia, crossing the City Line at Cheltenham Avenue, and then proceeding on private right-of-way down the middle of Limekiln Pike before running as a streetcar line on Keswick Avenue in Glenside, and then mostly side-of-the-road private right-of-way until reaching Willow Grove Park. SEPTA's Trolley Route 6, also known as the Ogontz Avenue Line is a former streetcar line and current bus route, operated by SEPTA in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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