Spring Hill station
 Spring Hill 
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 Platform of Spring Hill station | |||||||||||
| Location |
1576 Spring Hill Road Tysons Corner, Virginia | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 38°55′45″N 77°14′31″W / 38.92917°N 77.24194°WCoordinates: 38°55′45″N 77°14′31″W / 38.92917°N 77.24194°W | ||||||||||
| Owned by | WMATA | ||||||||||
| Line(s) |
Silver Line | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
| Connections |
 Fairfax Connector: 423, 424, 432, 493, 494, 495, 574, 724 Loudoun County Transit | ||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||
| Structure type | Elevated | ||||||||||
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| Station code | N04 | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | July 26, 2014[1] | ||||||||||
| Traffic | |||||||||||
| Passengers (2015) | 1,406 daily [2] | ||||||||||
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Spring Hill (preliminary names Tysons West, Tysons–Spring Hill Road)[3][4] is a Washington Metro station in Fairfax County, Virginia, on the Silver Line. Located in Tysons Corner, it began operation on July 26, 2014. The station is located in the central median of Leesburg Pike (SR 7) just west of Spring Hill Road.
There had been some controversy about whether to build the rail through Tysons Corner below ground or on elevated tracks. The efforts to build a tunnel through all of Tysons Corner failed, and the current design has the main platform with a height of 48 feet (15 m) at its east end and 51 feet (16 m) at its west end.[5]
The station is about 5.8 miles (9.3 km) from Wiehle–Reston East, the next station to the west, but only about 0.8 miles (1.3 km) from Greensboro directly to the southeast.
Station layout
| P Platform level |
Westbound | ← Silver Line toward Wiehle–Reston East (Terminus) |
| Island platform, doors will open on the left | ||
| Eastbound | → Silver Line toward Largo Town Center (Greensboro) → | |
| M | Mezzanine | One-way faregates, ticket machines, station agent |
| G | Street Level | Exit/ Entrance |
Station facilities
- 2 station entrances (each side of SR 7)
References
- ↑ "Completion date on Silver Line pushed back again". WTOP. Retrieved December 8, 2013.
- ↑ "2015 Historical Metrorail Ridership" (PDF). WMATA. Retrieved 2016-02-25.
- ↑ "Board of Supervisors Approves Proposed Silver Line Station Names". April 10, 2012. Retrieved April 11, 2012.
- ↑ Hosh, Kafia (March 29, 2011). "Fairfax OKs names for new Metrorail stations". Washington Post. Retrieved March 29, 2011.
- ↑ "DCMP Station Heights Actual". WMAA. Retrieved 2010-11-10.