Metropolitan Subdivision

v t e Metropolitan Subdivision
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MP Cumberland Subdivision 78.8 Brunswick Brunswick Yard 70.6 Catoctin Tunnel 69.2 Point of Rocks Tunnel Old Main Line Subdivision 42.8 Point of Rocks (Washington Jct.) Monocacy River 35.5 Dickerson 33.3 Barnesville 28.9 Boyds 26.4 Germantown 23.6 Metropolitan Grove I-270 21.6 Gaithersburg 20.8 Washington Grove Shady Grove Yard Shady Grove 16.7 Rockville Twinbrook 12.4 Garrett Park 11.0 Kensington I-495 Capital Beltway to Glenmont 7.5 Silver Spring Takoma MD DC Fort Totten Brookland–CUA Rhode Island Avenue Capital Subdivision Northeast Corridor Brentwood Yard | Ivy City Yard US 50 New York Avenue 1.0 NoMa–Gallaudet U (K Tower) 0.0 Union Station RF&P Subdivision via First Street Tunnel

v t e Metropolitan Branch
1893
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MP (Milepost) to Brunswick and Weverton 42.2 Old Main Line 42.1 Point of Rocks to Old Main Line EB 41.9 Washington Junction (East Rocks) 39.2 Tuscarora 39.0 Tuscarora Creek Bridge 37.4 Monocacy Viaduct 35.5 Dickerson 34.9 Little Monocacy Viaduct 33.4 Barnesville 30.3 Buck Lodge 28.9 Boyds 27.7 Little Seneca Creek Bridge 26.4 Germantown 24.9 Waring Viaduct over Great Seneca Creek 24.2 Clopper’s 23.0 Brown’s 21.6 Gaithersburg 21.0 Feed and grain mills 20.6 Washington Grove 19.2 Derwood 17.9 Westmore 16.7 Rockville 14.4 Halpine 13.7 Randolph 13.2 Windham 12.4 Garrett Park 11.5 Rock Creek Bridge 11.0 Kensington 10.5 Capitol View 9.8 Forest Glen 9.0 Linden Georgetown Branch 8.3 Georgetown Junction 7.9 Woodside 7.5 Silver Spring 6.3 North Takoma 5.8 Lamond 4.4 Terra Cotta 3.2 University 2.1 QN Tower Washington Branch 0.9 Eckington 0.0 Washington, D.C. (New Jersey Avenue station)

The Metropolitan Subdivision is a railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in Washington, D.C. and Maryland. The 53-mile line runs from Washington, D.C., northwest to Weverton, Maryland, along the former Metropolitan Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, opened in 1873.^[1][2]

At its southeast end, north of Washington Union Station, the Metropolitan Subdivision meets the Capital Subdivision (formerly the B&O's Washington Branch) and Amtrak's Northeast Corridor. It meets the Old Main Line Subdivision at Point of Rocks, Maryland. At its northwest end, at Weverton, the line joins the Cumberland Subdivision.

MARC Train's Brunswick Line uses the entire subdivision, as does Amtrak's Capitol Limited. The electrified tracks of the Red Line of the Washington Metro share the subdivision's right-of-way along two stretches: from the junction with the Capital Subdivision in D.C. to north of Silver Spring, Maryland, and from south of Twinbrook to the end of the Red Line at Shady Grove.