#Baltimore metro station pdf#
#Baltimore metro station series#

Is the closest the two come together, and the reason the light rail/metro system design sucks. at the otherĮnd of the block, to the right, you can see the Light Rail line. The Metro station is on the left, with the blue colored covering. The former end of the line for the Phase 1 section.Īmtrak passes by here, but there is no connection to the trains. The 'Western Maryland' (CSX) to contend with.

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#Baltimore metro station series#

Redesign Milford Mill Road, and gave it an overpass and a complicated series of In order to put this station in, they had to What you can see as you go over the SB 795 to EB 695 interchange Adjacent to the station is the 'new' MOW facility. Old Court is probably the neatest station in terms of access, having a long walkway You never know if the population density get like that of NYC (New York City) It is doubtful that the MTA will ever extend the Metro north of here, but hey, The station, having just passed the crossovers and a set of signals. Notice the train has switched over to the SB track for entering The storage tracks in between the rush hours, the parking lot gives it away.Ĭoming down on the southbound side of 795, you get these views of the tracks used for storageĪbove 3 pictures: This NB train is getting ready to enter the Owings Mills This is normal practice for almost every Metro/subway system at the end of a line Located near much of anything useful, they all have parking facilities and bus lanes.Ībove, Baltimore is to the right, along with the double set of crossovers (far right),Īllowing trains from either mainline track to use either station track. Since all of the at or above ground stations are not really Since there is much fuss over extending the line any further north, mostly because ofĪdded value vs cost. Owings Mills is the current north end of the line, and will probably remain that way

#Baltimore metro station pdf#

What is above is a repeat of what is on the Metro main page, more info can be foundĬlick here for the above map in PDF format Thereby making transfers between the two a royal pain in bad weather. In Baltimore, and illustrates the lack of a common station for the two systems, The map below is of both the Light and Heavy Rail systems Stats on Wikipedia, the cost of the total system ran 1.392 billion bucks. Isn't convenient to anything if you don't have a car. Interstate 795, making it basically a commuter railroad, cause it certainly Above Old Court Road and the Beltway, the line runs up Of the remaining 9 miles, 2.2 miles of it are elevated, andĦ.8 are at grade. The system is 15.2 miles long, with 6.2 miles of it It takes about half an hour to traverse the route one way. The latest expansion, in 1994,Įxtended the downtown service to Johns Hopkins Hospital in East Baltimore. It was laterĮxpanded northward to Owings Mills in 1987. Stations, nine of which were included when the system first opened The Baltimore Metro Subway system, hereafter called the Baltimore