West Cold Spring - (Baltimore Metro SubwayLink)

West Cold Spring is the first elevated Metro SubwayLink Station after leaving downtown. The station's single island platform contains a canopy structure that has support beams on each side of the trackway, with no support beams directly on the platform. There are glass skylights over the trackways with a narrow band of solid roofing (with accents of orange on the underside of the canopy structures) running over the middle of the platform. Passengers can wait in a number of silver enclosed on three of 4 sides with glass shelters. There are also some simple benches without backs in the middle of the platform.

To leave the platform, two escalators, a staircase and an elevator at the end of the mezzanine opposite the exit lead down to a central mezzanine beneath the platform. The actual fare control area is fully enclosed and located towards the northwestern end of the platform. Here automatic doors provide entry at both ends with the faregates in the middle, along with TVMs.

To reach the street there are just two options. There is a bank of two escalators that are straight ahead and lead down to the northern end of a bus loop with its central island for boarding passengers located directly beneath the station platform above. A concrete footbridge leads across the southwestern lane of the bus loop to an elevator located between the bus loop and the station's 300 space parking lot.

The station's park & ride lot is bounded by West Cold Spring Lane at its northern side and Wabash Avenue to the west, running parallel to the Metro's viaduct. The parking lot is depressed from West Cold Spring Lane in particular with stairs and a ramp leading up to it for pedestrian access just across the bus loop from the station entrance at its northern end. West Cold Spring Lane feels like it is at a similar level to the station mezzanine and a direct ramp could have been built with this design choice wasn't made.
Photos 1-12 taken on June 16, 2009; 13-27: August 31, 2024;

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A Budd Universal Transit Vehicle leaves for Mills

A Budd Universal Transit Vehicle leaves the station, looking past two platform name signs on lampposts

A West Cold Spring sign

The older white text on blue strip map showing all the subway link stops on the edge of the concrete viaduct across from the platform

Looking down the platform, the canopy has glass over the tracks and a central solid canopy, with a unique brown underside

A West Cold Spring platform sign on a platform shelter

The elevator to leave the platform and exposed platform beyond it

Looking back at the canopied portion of the platform from the exposed portion

Looking out from the platform at the blue Metro station triangle

A very scratched tactile/braille Station Directory - West Cold Spring - Platform - WCSP. Old Court and State Center have stars that they close at 8:00pm

A Owings Bound Budd Universal Transit Vehicle approaches the station on the concrete viaduct. The viaduct design is similar to Miami MetroRail but the trees make this clearly look like Baltimore