Landover station
 Landover 
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| Location |
3000 Pennsy Drive Hyattsville, MD 20785 | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority | ||||||||||
| Line(s) |
Orange Line | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
| Connections |
 Metrobus: A12, F12 TheBus: 27 | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | Embankment | ||||||||||
| Parking | 1,866 spaces | ||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | 26 racks, 8 lockers | ||||||||||
| Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Station code | D12 | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | November 20, 1978 | ||||||||||
| Traffic | |||||||||||
| Passengers (2015) |
1938 daily [1]  7.14% | ||||||||||
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Landover is an island platformed Washington Metro station in Landover, Maryland, United States. The station was opened on November 20, 1978, and is operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). Providing service for the Orange Line, the station is in a residential area of Landover at Pennsy Drive near Landover Road. It is primarily a commuter station, with parking for over 1,800 cars, but it also served the now-demolished Capital Centre, the former home of the Washington Bullets and Washington Capitals.
The station opened on November 20, 1978.[2][3] Its opening coincided with the completion of 7.4 miles (11.9 km)[4] of rail northeast of the Stadium–Armory station and the opening of the Cheverly, Deanwood, Minnesota Avenue and New Carrollton stations.[2][3]
The Pennsylvania Railroad (later Penn Central, then Conrail) previously operated a commuter rail stop at Landover, located at Old Landover Road. In August 1982, Conrail trains began stopping at Capital Beltway station, used by intercity trains since 1970. Lanham and Landover stations were closed.[5]
Station layout
| P Platform level |
Westbound | ← Orange Line toward Vienna (Cheverly) |
| Island platform, doors will open on the left | ||
| Eastbound | → Orange Line toward New Carrollton (Terminus) → | |
| M | Mezzanine | One-way faregates, ticket machines, station agent |
| G | Street Level | Exit/ Entrance |
References
- ↑ "Metrorail Average Weekday Passenger Boardings" (PDF). WMATA. Retrieved 2016-06-07.
- 1 2 Feaver, Douglas B. (November 12, 1978), "Orange Line brings Metro to Beltway; Orange Line will bring Metro to P.G.", The Washington Post, p. C1
- 1 2 Eisen, Jack; John Feinstein (November 18, 1978), "City-County fanfare opens Orange Line; Ceremonies open new Orange Line", The Washington Post, p. D1 Cite uses deprecated parameter
|coauthor=(help) - ↑ Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (July 2009). "Sequence of Metrorail openings" (PDF). Retrieved August 2, 2010.
- ↑ "Commuter Trains' New Stop: Beltway Station". Washington Post. August 11, 1982. p. MD11 – via Proquest Historical Newspapers. (subscription required (help)).
External links
Media related to Landover (WMATA station) at Wikimedia Commons
- WMATA: Landover Station
- StationMasters Online: Landover Station
- The Schumin Web Transit Center: Landover Station
Coordinates: 38°56′02″N 76°53′24″W / 38.933976°N 76.890028°W