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Actual map of the Washington Metro. Map of the network is drawn to scale. Since opening in 1976, the Metro network has grown to include six lines, 98 stations, and 129 miles (208 km) of route. [78] The rail network is designed according to a spoke–hub distribution paradigm, with rail lines running between downtown Washington and its nearby ...
The station is located in the Northeast quadrant of the city under the western end of Washington Union Station, the main train station for Washington. It has a single underground island platform . With a daily average of 9,848 tapped entries, Union Station is the third-busiest in the system, behind Metro Center and Foggy Bottom–GWU .
The busiest station in the system in 2023 was Metro Center, with more than 3.9 million passenger entries over the course of the year. [8] Rosslyn was the busiest station in Virginia, while Silver Spring was the busiest in Maryland. The system's 10 busiest stations are all located in Washington.
In 1979, an organization known as Metro 2001, Inc., planned to write a history of the development of the Metro system for WMATA using such documents as Congressional hearing transcripts, correspondence, and maps. This Metro History Project was abandoned in 1985, and materials that had been collected up until that point (1930-1984) were donated ...
Washington Union Station, known locally as Union Station, is a major train station, transportation hub, and leisure destination in Washington, D.C. Designed by Daniel Burnham and opened in 1907, it is Amtrak's headquarters, the railroad's second-busiest station, and North America's 10th-busiest railroad station.
Yellow Line train arriving at the Greenbelt station in Greenbelt, Maryland, the former northern terminus of the line along the Green Line in August 2022. In 2006, Metro board member Jim Graham and Washington, D.C. Mayor Anthony A. Williams proposed re-extending Yellow Line service to Fort Totten or even to Greenbelt. Their proposal did not ...
Make slight adjustment to Yellow Line Rush-Plus switch to Franconia-Springfield station to clarify that the train turns to the new routing starting from King Street station, not from Eisenhower Avenue Station. 17:59, 4 June 2012: 760 × 630 (63 KB) Rfc1394: Adjust "under construction" indicator so it's not butted up next to rush-hour legend
The Silver Line station at Dulles International Airport opened in November 2022, connecting the Washington Metro system to the city's major international airport for the first time. Dulles Airport uses an underground rail system, called AeroTrain , to connect concourses B and C with the main terminal.