Stadium/Federal Hill - (MARC Light RailLink)

Stadium/Federal Hill (originally named Hamburg Street Station) opened as an infill station on September 6, 1998. It was originally only in service during Baltimore Ravens games before becoming a full-time stop on July 1, 2005. The station opened with the opening of Ravens Stadium at Camden Yards (as of 2025 corporately named M&T Bank Stadium) in 1998.

The station consists of two side platforms for the two-track light rail line. The platforms each have a few simple black shelters for waiting passengers. These tracks are just west of the track used by freight trains to enter the historic Howard Street Tunnel, with the lead tracks for MARC Camden Line Commuter Trains just to the west of here. The station is located under the Hamburg Street bridge (also named the Mildred Moon Memorial bridge) at its southern end with a ramp of the Martin Luther King Blvd exit from Cal Ripkin Way (technically I-395, a short under 2 mile spur off of I-95 into Downtown Baltimore).

The two platforms are connected by pedestrian grade-crossings at all three ends of the platforms, although fencing runs down the middle between the two tracks with gates that can be closed off during game days to keep grounds from crossing the tracks. These grade-crossing gates can exist because at the southern end of each platform is the start of an ADA accessible ramp that leads up to a pedestrian bridge that connects with the light rail tracks, crosses over the nearby MARC Camden Line/CSX Freight tracks and leads up to the plaza outside the Stadium, just outside the east end zone.

Otherwise, the station has an exit only from the Northbound platform to the nearby neighborhood. This exit path is not the most pleasant walk, requiring passengers to walk 500 feet through some stadium parking lots, and under the concrete bollards holding up Cal Ripkin Way (I-395).
Photos 1-30 taken on August 31, 2024;

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LRV #5033 stopped in the station

LRV #5033 begins to leave the station heading towards Hunt Valley

A Hunt Valley-bound train fades into the disance

The station platforms and stadium in the background

Multiple shelters blocking TVMs in the station

Looking across a pedestrian crossing that has a fence that can be closed off (there is a bridge with ramps to the stadium connecting the platforms)

A TVM on the platform

The Light RailLink Map and information panel at Stadium/Federal Hill

The Light RailLink Map

Two different name signs, Hamburg Street or Stadium-Federal Hill

Two different platform name signs, Hamburg Street or Stadium-Federal Hill

Looking down the platform that passes under the Hamburg Street bridge

Looking directly under the Hamburg Street bridge as it crosses over the station platforms

A pedestrain grade-crossing at the southern end of the platform

Looking across the glass up to the pedestrian footbridge at the stadium in the background

Looking down the fence south of the platforms and crossover switch, plus the pedestrain bridge to the stadium that has ramps up from each platform and connects them

looking past the southbound mini-high platform that is basically part of the ramp up to the pedestrian bridge

The bottom of the ramp up to the mini-high platform and to the footbridge that connects to the stadium, crossing over the Howard Street tunnel tracks

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