Brunswick station (Maryland)

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Brunswick
MARC commuter rail station
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Brunswick station house, September 2012
General information
Location100 South Maple Avenue, Brunswick, Maryland [1]
Coordinates 39°18′43″N77°37′38″W / 39.31194°N 77.62722°W / 39.31194; -77.62722
Owned byCity of Brunswick
Line(s) Cumberland Subdivision
Metropolitan Subdivision
Platforms3 side platforms
Tracks4
Construction
ParkingYes
AccessibleYes
History
Opened1891
Passengers
November 2022174 (daily) [2] (MARC)
Services
Preceding station MARC train.svg MARC Following station
Harpers Ferry
towards Martinsburg
Brunswick Line Point of Rocks
towards Union Station
Former services
Preceding station BSicon LOGO Amtrak2.svg Amtrak Following station
Harpers Ferry
toward Martinsburg
Blue Ridge
ended 1986
Gaithersburg
Harpers Ferry Shenandoah
ended 1981
Preceding station Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Following station
Harpers Ferry
toward Chicago
Main Line Point of Rocks
toward Jersey City
Knoxville
toward Chicago
Tuscarora
toward Jersey City
Brunswick Railroad Station
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Trackside view of the station house.
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Location Brunswick, Maryland, USA
Coordinates 39°18′43″N77°37′38″W / 39.31194°N 77.62722°W / 39.31194; -77.62722
Architect Ephraim Francis Baldwin
Architectural styleQueen Anne
Part of Brunswick Historic District (ID79001128)
Added to NRHPAugust 29, 1979. [3]

Brunswick is a passenger rail station on the MARC Brunswick Line between Washington, D.C., and Martinsburg, West Virginia. [1] The station house, located at 100 South Maple Street in Brunswick, Maryland, is a former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad depot that is a contributing property to the Brunswick Historic District, which has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since August 29, 1979. [4] The station was designed by Ephraim Francis Baldwin and opened in 1891 on Seventh Avenue. Several years later the building was moved to its current location. [5] It is a wooden frame building with stone walls up to the window sills, and features Palladian windows in the roof dormers. [6]

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Amtrak's former Blue Ridge previously served the station and eventually dropped the stop from its timetables. [7] The Brunswick station was the final station in the CSX System to eliminate human ticket agents. Barb Eichelberger, the last employee of her kind in the entire system, retired in June 2010. [8]

Station layout

Brunswick features a unique station layout in which the westbound and eastbound tracks are separated by the station's parking lot. The station house is located just north of a platform serving the Martinsburg-bound trains, while two side platforms south of the parking lot serve Washington-bound trains.

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References

  1. 1 2 MARC station list (includes Brunswick) Archived 2008-03-09 at the Wayback Machine MARC official website
  2. "MARC Brunswick Line Technical Report" (PDF). Maryland Transit Administration . Retrieved February 19, 2023.
  3. National Register of Historic Places Listings; August 29, 1979
  4. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  5. Maryland Historical Trust (March 15, 1978). "Brunswick Historic District; National Register of Historic Places; Nomination Form" . Retrieved March 26, 2016. p. 11.
  6. Avery, Carlos P. (2003). E. Francis Baldwin, Architect: The B&O, Baltimore, and Beyond. Baltimore, Maryland: Baltimore Architecture Foundation. p. 36. ISBN   0-9729743-0-X.
  7. Amtrak Timetables; October 25, 1981; Capitol Limited (Museum of Railway Timetables)
  8. "Last CSX ticket agent retires at Brunswick MARC station". The Baltimore Sun. June 9, 2010. Archived from the original on June 7, 2011. Retrieved June 9, 2010.

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