Mount Washington station is a
Baltimore Light Rail
Baltimore Light RailLink (formerly Baltimore Light Rail, and also known simply as the "Light Rail") is a light rail system serving Baltimore, Maryland, United States, as well as its surrounding suburbs. It is operated by the Maryland Transit A ...
station in the
Mt. Washington neighborhood of
Baltimore, Maryland
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. The station has two
side platform
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s serving two tracks.
History
The station was built in the location of the Mt. Washington station of the defunct
Northern Central Railway
The Northern Central Railway (NCRY) was a Class I Railroad connecting Baltimore, Maryland with Sunbury, Pennsylvania, along the Susquehanna River. Completed in 1858, the line came under the control of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) in 1861, wh ...
. 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 narrow streets. Instead, they use a
bus loop in Mt. Washington Village along
Kelly Avenue
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Heath St. Route 64. (MTA Maryland)
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, which was constructed in 1949 as a temporary layover for buses following the conversion from streetcars.
References
External links
Station from Google Maps Street View
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1992 establishments in Maryland
Baltimore Light Rail stations
Mount Washington, Baltimore
Railway stations in Baltimore
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1992