16th Street–Woodside station

16th Street–Woodside station is a light rail station under construction in the Woodside neighborhood of Silver Spring, Maryland. To be located on 16th Street, it will be part of Maryland's Purple Line, which is scheduled to open in 2027.^[1][2][3]

16th Street–Woodside
Station construction in 2025
General information
Location	Woodside, Silver Spring, Maryland
Coordinates	38.998425°N 77.037991°W / 38.998425; -77.037991
Owned by	Maryland Transit Administration
Operated by	Maryland Transit Solutions
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Construction
Parking	None
Accessible	Yes
History
Opening	2027 (2027) (scheduled)
Services
Preceding station Maryland Transit Administration Following station Lyttonsville toward Bethesda Purple Line Silver Spring toward New Carrollton
Former services at Woodside station Preceding station Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Following station Kensington toward Chicago Main Line Silver Spring toward Jersey City Forest Glen toward Chicago
Location

History

Earlier B&O station

The Purple Line at Woodside follows the right-of-way of the Metropolitan Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O), which opened in 1872.

In 1889, Benjamin Leighton—lawyer, banker, real estate developer, and future dean of Howard Law School—platted the Woodside subdivision. The following year, he built a station for the B&O at Woodside to increase the value of his land. Designed in Victorian style, the station sat on the north side of the tracks at 3rd Avenue, between its present-day intersections with Ballard Street and Noyes Drive.^[4] After 1897, pedestrians could connect to the Forest Glen Trolley station three blocks away, at the intersection of present-day Georgia Avenue and Ballard Street.

The station burned down in the 1920s. The B&O later built a section house at the site, near the junction with the Georgetown Branch.^[5][6]

Purple Line station

At Woodside, the Purple Line runs south of the tracks of the CSX railroad's Metropolitan Subdivision, which run south of the Capital Crescent Trail.^[7] It will have two side platforms.^[8]

External links

• 1949 photo of the B&O section house on the site of its former Woodside station