Mount
Washington
Washington
Falls Road
Cold Spring Lane
Mount Washington is the most northern Light RailLink station in the City of Baltimore. The station consists of two side platforms for the two-track line. The Northbound platform contains a modern blue-posts (when I visited in 2009) with a white roof canopy structure, with two blue shelters on the southbound platform.
The platforms are connected by three grade-crossings, one in the middle of the platform, one near the southern end of the platforms (just before the ramp up to the minihigh platform for Southbound trains) and a final one just south of the station. The grade-crossing just south of the station leads to a path that goes down (via plenty of steps) to run along Western Run, cross under the Jones Falls Expressway (I-83) that is just east of the light rail line before arriving at Smith Avenue. This path is the only entrance directly to the Northbound platform.
The Southbound platform contains the main “business” of the station with 83 parking spaces along a single parking lot, with cars parked directly along the sides of the Southbound platform. This parking lot has a single entrance from the corner of a different section of Smith Avenue than the pedestrian path as it curves onto Newbury Street. This station feels like an old railroad development which makes sense since the light rail was built upon tracks of the former Northern Central Railway.
Photos 1-14 taken on June 16, 2009;
