Mt. Washington station is a Baltimore Light RailLink station in the Mount Washington neighborhood of northern Baltimore, Maryland. The station has two side platforms serving two tracks.
Mt. Washington | |||||||||||
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General information | |||||||||||
Location | 5701 Smith Avenue Baltimore, Maryland | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 39°22′06″N 76°39′08″W / 39.3684°N 76.6523°W | ||||||||||
Owned by | Maryland Transit Administration | ||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
Connections | MTA: 27, 58, 60 | ||||||||||
Construction | |||||||||||
Parking | 83 free spaces | ||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | April 2, 1992[1] | ||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||
2017 | 421 daily[2] | ||||||||||
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History
editThe station was built on the site of the defunct Northern Central Railway's Mount Washington station.[3] When the current stop opened in 1992, it had only a single track for trains traveling in either direction; a second track was added when the Light Rail's double-tracking project for this station was completed in 2005.
MTA buses do not serve the station directly due to Mount Washington Village's narrow streets. Instead, they use a bus loop along Kelly Avenue, which was constructed in 1949 as a temporary layover for buses following the removal of the Falls Road streetcar line.[4]
References
edit- ^ "Maryland Department of Transportation Maryland Transit Administration Media Guide" (PDF). Maryland Department of Transportation Maryland Transit Administration. 2017. pp. 15–16. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 12, 2018.
- ^ "Light Rail Link Cornerstone Plan" (PDF). Maryland Department of Transportation Maryland Transit Administration. p. 15.
- ^ File:PRR 1955 schedule.jpg
- ^ "A History of the Falls Road Streetcar Line". Baltimore Transit Archives. Archived from the original on 2008-05-27. Retrieved 2008-05-30.
External links
editMedia related to Mount Washington station at Wikimedia Commons