Johns Hopkins Hospital - (Baltimore Metro SubwayLink)

Johns Hopkins Hospital is one of the Baltimore Metro SubwayLinks two newest station’s and opened on May 31, 1995 becoming the new terminus of the Metro. It is located at the eastern end of the generally northwest-southeast metro line, but is not the southern-most station, with trains curving north after leaving downtown to reach the station, the Metro forming a reverse-J.

The station (like all Baltimore Metro Stations) contains an island platform. Trains use a crossover to change tracks and direction before the station, meaning they can leave from either side of this island platform. This island platform contains a uniquely arched platform ceiling with what looks like ventilation openings over most of the platform. The ceilings of the tracks have white panels that lead to artwork along the track walls. The floor of the platform is grey tiles interspersed with teal diamonds.

The track walls have a large scale collage mural on porcelain, Lost in the Cosmos by Peggy Fox. These panels consists of both timeless and futuristic looking images including silhouettes of people, the shapes of stars, and busier sections with more abstract imagery including some nods to Metro trains.

The station contains a basically full length mezzanine with two exits. The mezzanine isn't continuous to customers within fare control, but the two entrances are connected with a narrow passageway connecting the two entrances outside of fare control, where the mezzanine is wider (by the entrances) and has access to the platforms there is just a low silver fence separates this passageway outside of fare control with the stairs/escalators and elevators down to the platform.

The core of the mezzanine area has glass block walls that form a wave pattern intersected by silver columns along the glass block walls. The majority of lighting in the core mezzanine is behind these glass block walls providing indirect shadows. A teal trimline provides a touch of color throughout the mezzanine. The ceiling is bare concrete with crossbeams visible. The floor is the same as the platform.

The station has two exits, one at either end of the mezzanine. At the extreme southern end of the platform a combined escalator/staircase with an elevator farther down the platform (and farther from the exit) leads to a bank of fare gates. This leads out to a wide bank of staircases/escalators that lead up to a short intermediate landing. This landing contains an orange trim line and a direct entrance via a revolving door into Johns Hopkins Hospital. "This entrance is closed Sat, Sun, and Holidays" as the sign above the sign for Hospital reads. Another bank of two escalators plus a staircase leads up to the wide tree-lined median of North Broadway just north of the wide traffic circle of Jefferson Street in the middle of the Johns Hopkins Hospital campus. This entrance also has a street elevator, with an elevator connecting the main mezzanine level, making an intermediate stop at the intermediate level (for the direct hospital entrance).

Towards the northern end of the platform two combined escalator/staircases plus an elevator (yay redundant elevators!) lead up to the northern wide half of the platform mezzanine. Here there is a a single bank of faregates before passengers must switchback to reach a single combined staircase/two escalators, with another street elevator across from them. These all lead up to the west side of Broadway Street just north of Monument Street, where one building separates this street from the plaza entrance. This plaza's entrance pavilion is over the stairs/escalators with a separate elevator. The little plaza is directly parallel to an alley, Arnold Court with a tall fence separating the entrances from this alley not providing any direct access.

The station's street entrances all have the same black with glass walls. Unique gold lettering in and older serif font says Baltimore Metro on a blue background above the entrance gates into the Metro, as if trying to show the Metro has serviced Johns Hopkins Hospital for a century and not just since 1995.
Photos 1 & 2 taken on June 16, 2009; 3-58: August 31, 2024

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Looking through a fence at the back of a station entrance

A blue original Johns Hopkins Hospital entrance pillar

Lost in the Cosmos, little blue Johns Hopkins Hospital signs interrupt the artwork

A shelter on the outdoor portion of the platform

The elevator directly up to the north exit

A grey hanging Johns Hopkins Hospital sign and Budd Universal Transit Vehicle #108 stopped in the station

A bench and grey station sign above

Sign for Buses & Streets with some variable signs inlcuding one to Leave Station and a sign for the Area of Emergency Refuge

Lost in the Cosmos on the platform walls, modern strip maps have been added

A blue sign on the side of a platform staircase for Johns Hopkins Hospital

Budd Universal Transit Vehicle #109 stopped in the station. It will be the next train to Owings Mills

Budd Universal Transit Vehicle #109 stopped in the station

Budd Universal Transit Vehicle #109 stopped and the The closed bank of two escalators to reach the one station exit, its just a very long flight of stairs

Leaving the platfrom beyond the next four car train of Budd Universal Transit Vehicles to leave in 2 minutes

Approaching the northern exit and its bank of fare gates. Notice the bus fare box since the faregates can't read all bus passes, they can't read the CharmPass App either

Looking down the corridor outside of fare control (that narrows in the distance) that connects the two station exits

The teal trimlined walkway to the northern station exit

Looking back to the faregates into the station from the side corridor to the northern exit

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