Federal Triangle station

The station opened on July 1, 1977.{{Citation |last=Feaver |first=Douglas B. |title=Today, Metro could be U.S. model |date=July 1, 1977 |newspaper=The Washington Post |page=A1}} Its opening coincided with the completion of {{convert|11.8|mi|km}}{{cite web |url=https://www.wmata.com/about/upload/Metro-Facts-2017-FINAL.pdf |title=Sequence of Metrorail openings |date=2017 |publisher=WMATA |page=3 |access-date=March 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180702201723/https://www.wmata.com/about/upload/Metro-Facts-2017-FINAL.pdf |archive-date=July 2, 2018 |url-status=dead }} of rail between National Airport and RFK Stadium and the opening of the Arlington Cemetery, Capitol South, Crystal City, Eastern Market, Farragut West, Federal Center SW, Foggy Bottom–GWU, L'Enfant Plaza, McPherson Square, National Airport, Pentagon, Pentagon City, Potomac Avenue, Rosslyn, Smithsonian, and Stadium–Armory stations.{{Citation |title=Metro's newest stations: Where they are, what's nearby |date=June 24, 1977 |newspaper=The Washington Post}} Orange Line service to the station began upon the line's opening on November 20, 1978.{{Citation |last=Eisen |first=Jack |author2=John Feinstein |title=City-County fanfare opens Orange Line; Ceremonies open new Orange Line |newspaper=The Washington Post |page=D1 |date=November 18, 1978}} Silver Line service at Federal Triangle began on July 26, 2014.{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/all-aboard-metros-new-silver-line-rolls-down-the-tracks-for-the-first-time/2014/07/26/238aaa68-14cc-11e4-8936-26932bcfd6ed_story.html |title=All aboard! Metro's new Silver Line rolls down the tracks for the first time |last=Halsey |first=Ashley |date=July 26, 2014 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=July 8, 2016}}

On January 13, 1982, an eastbound Metro train on the Orange Line derailed just east of the station resulting in three fatalities, the first fatalities in the system's history.{{Cite news |title=Metro Train Derails; 3 Die |last=Stephen J. Lynton |date=January 14, 1982 }}

From March 26, 2020 until June 28, 2020, this station was closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.{{cite web |url=https://www.wmata.com/schedules/maps/upload/2019-System-Map-COVID-19-stations-FINAL.pdf |title=Special Covid-19 System Map |publisher=Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority |access-date=May 24, 2020 |archive-date=March 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200327192846/https://www.wmata.com/schedules/maps/upload/2019-System-Map-COVID-19-stations-FINAL.pdf |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=https://www.wmata.com/service/status/details/covid-station-closures.cfm |title=Metrorail stations closed due to COVID-19 pandemic |date=March 23, 2020 |publisher=Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority |access-date=May 24, 2020}}{{cite web |title=Metro to reopen 15 stations, reallocate bus service to address crowding, starting Sunday {{!}} WMATA |url=https://www.wmata.com/about/news/Metro-to-reopen-15-stations-reallocate-bus-service.cfm |website=www.wmata.com |access-date=22 June 2020}}

Between January 15 to January 21, 2021, this station was closed because of security concerns due to the Inauguration of Joe Biden.{{cite web |title=Metro announces Inauguration service plans, station closures {{!}} WMATA |url=https://www.wmata.com/about/news/2021-Inauguration-Service-Adjustments.cfm |website=www.wmata.com |access-date=13 January 2021}}

The station serves an area of Washington crowded with federal buildings, on 12th Street between Pennsylvania Avenue NW and Constitution Avenue NW, including the triangular area formed by 15th Street, Constitution, and Pennsylvania known as Federal Triangle, from which the station takes its name. The triangle includes such federal buildings as the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building, the Herbert C. Hoover Building (Department of Commerce), and the buildings of the Internal Revenue Service and the Environmental Protection Agency.

Federal Triangle utilizes the simple island platform layout. There are two tracks: track D1 is used for trains bound for New Carrollton and Largo, and track D2 is used for trains going to Franconia–Springfield, Vienna and Ashburn.{{Cite web |url=http://mysite.verizon.net/cambronj/ |title=John R Cambron track maps |access-date=September 11, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140902033747/http://mysite.verizon.net/cambronj/ |archive-date=September 2, 2014 |url-status=dead }} As with all stations on the Metro, there are platform edge lights to warn passengers of incoming trains. In 2008, WMATA installed red-colored LED lights at Federal Triangle and centrally-located stations after a successful pilot at {{wmata|Gallery Place}}.{{Cite press release |url=https://wmata.com/about/news/pressreleasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=2029 |title=Metro installing more red platform edge lights |publisher=WMATA |access-date=March 30, 2018}} There is a coffered barrel-vault ceiling at Federal Triangle, as is typical of other Washington Metro stations built at that time.

There is only one entrance to the platform level, located slightly south of the center of the platform within a knockout panel for a proposed east entrance.{{Cite web |url=http://world.nycsubway.org/us/washdc/blue.html |title=Blue line |website=NYCSubway |access-date=September 11, 2008}} Escalators from this mezzanine level lead to the plaza of the William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building.

The station was featured in the 2007 film Breach.{{cite news|title=Metro's Star Turns on Film and TV|date=March 31, 2008|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2008/04/01/metros-star-turns-on-film-and-tv/db70cf04-1438-4bf1-8374-f4f55d130aa2/|access-date=March 17, 2025|newspaper=The Washington Post}}

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• Several federal government buildings in and near the Federal Triangle
• William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building (United States Environmental Protection Agency headquarters
• Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium
• Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building (Department of Justice headquarters)
• Herbert C. Hoover Building (Department of Commerce headquarters)
• National Aquarium in Washington, D.C.
• White House Visitor Center
• Environmental Protection Agency
• J. Edgar Hoover Building (Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters)
• Old Post Office (Waldorf=Astoria Hotel)
• Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
• Freedom Plaza
• National World War I Memorial
• National Mall
• Several Smithsonian Institution museums on the Mall, including the National Museum of American History and National Museum of Natural History

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• The Schumin Web Transit Center: [https://web.archive.org/web/20090328015944/http://transit.schuminweb.com/transit/wmata/blue-line.php?station=D01 Federal Triangle Station]
• [https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=38.89373,-77.028108&spn=0.003975,0.013722&z=17&layer=c&cbll=38.893617,-77.028112&panoid=vDzYvNOPdSZ_1jjPDbR4BA&cbp=12,303.83,,0,2.68 12th Street entrance from Google Maps Street View]

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