Rolling Road - (VRE Manassas Line)

Rolling Road is a suburban VRE Park & Ride station who's main destinations are suburban cul-de-sacs. Passengers can park in one of 390 parking spaces in a single parking lot located just off Burke Road with a single entrance into in the middle of the parking lot. The station is located a half-mile west of Rolling Road although there is what appears to be a multi-use path through the woods to make this connection. There is a nice wooden looking Rolling Road entrance sign by this parking lot entrance.

The train platform is on the opposite side of this parking lot, with the two-track line located on top of a grassy embankment. There is just one platform on the south side of the two-track line, with reverse peak trains bypassing the station on the opposite track.

Connecting the platform and parking lot are three staircases, one at the northern end of the platform, one in the middle, and one near the southern end of the platform. The southernmost staircase is slightly shorter and contains a switch backing ramp alongside it connecting parking lot to platform. The ramp entrance leads up to a small entrance area with a ticket validator (complete with a Boston T logo, the same design as the ones at Fairmont Line stations) and two TVMs (there was once a third TVM but it is missing). The station platform contains two sections of canopy structures each about a car length. One is attached to the covered entrance area, the other is at the northern end of the platform.
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Looking out the front window of an approaching Washington-bound train. There is a small wooden level crossing

Entering the station for a few passengers, passing the platform canopy

Coming to a stop, approaching the second stretch of platform canopy

Stepping off a Manassas-bound train by an Exit sign

The Manassas Destination sign and direction sign (blocked by webbing to keep birds out for Manassas or Washington DC

Gallery IV Cab Car #V727 leaves the station, after passing the little wooden crossing so a train in an emergency could open one door on the non-platforming track

Gallery IV Cab Car #V727 curves into the distance

A modern blue Rolling Road sign facing the paltform on the main platform canopy

Looking up at the Thank You for Riding sign and TVMs below

A full view of the main entrance area with a Train information board next to TVMs and the staircase ahead, ramp off to one side down to the large parking lot

TVMs, there were 3 now two, and the tacitle braille system map

The Train delayed/location monitor is under the anit-bird mesh

A MBTA T Ticket/Card Validation Machine (VRE uses the same technology as Charlie Tickets) to print on multi-ride or pre-pruchased tickets and the pedistal of a now-removed TVM

The please insert your ticket machine. The image shows a VRE ticket, there is just the T logo in the upper left corner

The Train Information sign

At the top of steps down to the parking lot

Ramp or wide staircase up to the platform at the main entrance

Bike Racks next to the station entrance staircase

A No parking area by the entrance to the station, and fairly empty parking lot after the second train on a Friday afternoon

Looking across the parking lot at the station platform

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