Patapsco station

{{Short description|Baltimore Light Rail station in Halethorpe, Maryland, US}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}}

{{Use American English|date=January 2025}}

{{Infobox station

| style=MTA Maryland

| name= Patapsco

| type= Baltimore Light Rail station

| image=MTA Maryland 9863.jpg

| image_caption=An MTA Maryland bus at Patapsco station in 2010

| address=751 West Patapsco Avenue
Lansdowne, Maryland

| coordinates={{coord|39|14|31.11|N|76|37|47.47|W|type:railwaystation_region:US-MD|display=inline,title}}

| line=

| other={{bus icon}} 14
{{bus icon}} 16
{{bus icon}} 17
{{bus icon}} 51
{{bus icon}} 75
{{bus icon}} 77

| platform=2 side platforms

| tracks=2

| parking=216 free spaces

| bicycle=

| passengers=1,192 daily{{cite web |title=Light Rail Link Cornerstone Plan |url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/mta-website-staging/mta-website-staging/files/Transit%20Projects/Cornerstone/LRCP_LightRailLink.pdf |publisher=Maryland Department of Transportation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231003055640/https://s3.amazonaws.com/mta-website-staging/mta-website-staging/files/Transit%20Projects/Cornerstone/LRCP_LightRailLink.pdf |archive-date=2023-10-03 |date=2018 |url-status=live}}

| pass_year=2017

| pass_percent=

| pass_system=

| opened=1993

| rebuilt=

| accessible=Yes

| code=

| owned=Maryland Transit Administration

| zone=

| services= {{Adjacent stations|system=MTA Maryland|line=Main|left=Baltimore Highlands|right=Cherry Hill}}

| mapframe = yes

| mapframe-custom = {{Infobox mapframe |shape=none |line=none |marker=rail-light |marker-color=#{{rcr|MTA Maryland|Main}} |zoom=15 }}

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Patapsco station is a Baltimore Light Rail station in Halethorpe, Maryland. The stop is located along Patapsco Avenue from which its name is derived. The station serves as a hub for several MTA bus routes. Patapsco was the final stop along the line for a period from September 1992 until April 1993, when the line was extended to Linthicum.

The station has 216 spaces for commuters,{{cite web| url=http://mtamaryland.com/services/lightrail/parking/| title=Light Rail Parking| publisher=Maryland Transit Administration| date=December 2005| accessdate=2008-05-30| url-status=dead| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090418042456/http://www.mtamaryland.com/services/lightrail/parking| archivedate=2009-04-18}} some of that allow for overnight parking. Patapasco station was the original northern terminus of the Baltimore and Annapolis Railroad, which connected to the Curtis Bay Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.

Bus routes 14, 75, 51, 77 and the Patapsco branch of CityLink Yellow lay over at the station. Route 16 also passes through the station in both directions along its route.

Station layout

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|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" rowspan=6 valign=bottom width=50|G

style="border-bottom:solid 2px black;border-right:solid 2px black;border-left:solid 2px black;border-top:solid 1px gray;text-align:center;" colspan=2|Side platform, doors will open on the right
Southbound

|← Light Rail toward {{mtams|BWI Airport}} or {{mtams|Glen Burnie}} ({{mtams|Baltimore Highlands}})

style="border-top:solid 1px gray;"|Northbound

|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;"|{{0|←}} Light Rail toward {{mtams|Fairgrounds}} or {{mtams|Hunt Valley}} ({{mtams|Cherry Hill}})

style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;border-right:solid 2px black;border-left:solid 2px black;border-top:solid 2px black;text-align:center;" colspan=2|Side platform, doors will open on the right
style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" width=100|Street level

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" width=450|Exit/entrance

References

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