Long Branch | |||||||||||
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Location | 8736 Arliss Street, Long Branch, Silver Spring, Maryland 20901 | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 38°59′57″N77°00′04″W / 38.9991°N 77.0012°W | ||||||||||
Owned by | Maryland Transit Administration | ||||||||||
Operated by | Maryland Transit Solutions | ||||||||||
Platforms | 1 center platform | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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Structure type | at-grade | ||||||||||
Parking | no | ||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
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Opening | 2027[1] | (scheduled)||||||||||
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Long Branch is a light rail station that is currently under construction in the Long Branch neighborhood of Silver Spring, Maryland. It will be part of the Purple Line in Maryland. The station will be located at Arliss Street and Piney Branch Road, adjacent to the Long Branch Library.
The Purple Line system is under construction as of 2023 and is scheduled to open in 2027. [1]
The station consists of an island platform on the south side of Arliss Street, just west of Piney Branch Road. [2]
P Platform level | Westbound | ← Purple Line toward Bethesda (Manchester Place) |
Island platform, doors will open on the left | ||
Eastbound | Purple Line toward New Carrollton (Piney Branch Road) → |
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