Nine Mile station is an

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ed RTD light rail station in

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. The station was opened on November 17, 2006, and is operated by the

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as part of the H and R lines. When it opened in 2006, it was the terminus of the H Line Southeast Corridor trains traveling along

Interstate 225 Interstate 225 (I-225) is an auxiliary Interstate Highway in the U.S. state of Colorado. The freeway is a connector spur route of I-25 that acts as an eastern bypass in the Denver metropolitan area and serves Aurora. It also provides direct ...

. After the opening of the R Line in 2017, trains on the H Line were extended northeast to Florida station. Nine Mile station is named after, and built at the approximate location of, the historic Nine Mile House, one of several stage stops along the

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. This stop was nine miles from Denver.

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