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]
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.
Gallery
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Station house -
MARC conductors catching up with local news on a foggy morning
References
- ^ a b MARC station list (includes Brunswick) Archived 2008-03-09 at the Wayback Machine MARC official website
- ^ "MARC Brunswick Line Technical Report" (PDF). Maryland Transit Administration. Retrieved February 19, 2023.
- ^ National Register of Historic Places Listings; August 29, 1979
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ Maryland Historical Trust (March 15, 1978). "Brunswick Historic District; National Register of Historic Places; Nomination Form". Retrieved March 26, 2016. p. 11.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Amtrak Timetables; October 25, 1981; Capitol Limited (Museum of Railway Timetables)
- ^ "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.
External links
Media related to Brunswick station (Maryland) at Wikimedia Commons
