Brunswick is a passenger rail station on the MARC Brunswick Line between Washington, D.C. and

Martinsburg, West Virginia Martinsburg is a city in and the seat of Berkeley County, West Virginia, in the tip of the state's Eastern Panhandle region in the lower Shenandoah Valley. Its population was 18,835 in the 2021 census estimate, making it the largest city in the E ...

.MARC station list (includes Brunswick)
''MARC official website'' The station house, located at 100 South Maple Street in

Brunswick, Maryland Brunswick is a city in southwestern Frederick County, Maryland, United States. The city is located on the north bank of the Potomac River; Loudoun County, Virginia occupies the opposite shore. The population of Brunswick was 7,762 at the 2020 c ...

, is a former

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States, with its first section opening in 1830. Merchants from Baltimore, which had benefited to some extent from the construction of ...

depot that is a contributing property to the

Brunswick Historic District The Brunswick Historic District includes the historic center of the railroad town of Brunswick, Maryland. The district includes the 18th century former town of Berlin, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad yards along the Potomac River The P ...

, which has been listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...

since August 29, 1979. The station was designed by

Ephraim Francis Baldwin Ephraim Francis Baldwin (October 4, 1837 – January 20, 1916) was an American architect, best known for his work for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and for the Roman Catholic Church. Personal life Although born in Troy, New York, Baldwin live ...

and opened in 1891 on Seventh Avenue. Several years later the building was moved to its current location. It is a wooden frame building with stone walls up to the window sills, and features Palladian windows in the roof dormers.

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's former '' Blue Ridge'' previously served the station and eventually dropped the stop from its timetables.Amtrak Timetables; October 25, 1981; Capitol Limited (Museum of Railway Timetables)
/ref> The Brunswick station was the final station in the CSX System to eliminate human ticket agents. Barb Eichelberger, the last employee of her kind in the entire system, retired in June 2010.

Station layout

Brunswick features a unique station layout in which the westbound and eastbound tracks are separated by the station's parking lot. The station house is located just north of a platform serving the Martinsburg-bound trains, while two side platforms south of the parking lot serve Washington-bound trains.

Gallery

File:Downtown Brunswick 009.jpg, Station house File:MARC cab car 7747 at Brunswick station on a foggy morning, 2001.jpg, MARC conductors catching up with local news on a foggy morning

References

External links

Brunswick station official website

Station from Petersville Road from Google Maps Street View
Brunswick Line Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland Former Amtrak stations in Maryland Former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad stations MARC Train stations Historic district contributing properties in Maryland Queen Anne architecture in Maryland National Register of Historic Places in Frederick County, Maryland Transportation buildings and structures in Frederick County, Maryland {{FrederickCountyMD-NRHP-stub