Doraville is a subway station in

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, and the northern terminus on the Gold Line of the

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(MARTA) rail system. Doraville serves as the ground for the Doraville rail yard for the Gold line, with a capacity of 30 rail cars. This station mainly serves Doraville, Tucker, Norcross, Peachtree Corners,

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and Lawrenceville. This station provides access to Doraville City Hall, Doraville Health Department, Doraville Public Library, and bus service to Sugarloaf Mills (formerly Discover Mills). Bus service is also provided at this station to

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, Buford Highway, Phipps Plaza, Peachtree Industrial Boulevard, and Brandsmart USA.

Station layout

Parking

Doraville has 1,070 daily and long term parking spaces available for MARTA users which are located in paved parking lots and one parking deck.

Bus routes

The station is served by the following MARTA bus routes: * Route 25 - Peachtree Industrial Boulevard * Route 39 - Buford Highway * Route 104 - Winters Chapel Road * Route 124 - Pleasantdale Road * Route 133 - Shallowford Road The station is also served by the following Ride Gwinnett bus routes: * Route 10A/10B - Sugarloaf Mills to Gwinnett Place to Doraville Station via Satellite Boulevard, Buford Highway, and Beaver Ruin Road corridors * Route 20 - Norcross to Indian Trail-Lilburn Road/Singleton Road/Graves Road corridors to Doraville Station * Route 35 - Peachtree Corners to Norcross to Doraville Station

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(GRTA) Xpress route 408 - Doraville to Johns Creek Parkway

Proposed Intercity Rail Service

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has been considering moving their service for the

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area to a site near this station to replace their current station in the Brookwood neighborhood. While agreements with

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and

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are necessary, this would provide the station with a direct connection with Amtrak Crescent service to

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, Charlotte,

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, and

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. The station site is also proposed for possible intercity service on the Southeast High Speed Rail Corridor's Charlotte to Atlanta segment, should a future analysis choose an approach into Atlanta via

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trackage. If the alignment through Doraville is chosen, it is assumed at all trains along the corridor would stop here, due to its connection to the MARTA rail system. Amtrak had again listed Doraville as a proposed station stop along a corridor route from

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to Atlanta as part of their "Connects US" plan in May 2021. As part of this vision, three round trips would operate to Charlotte daily, with two of these trips extending to

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as a possible extension of the existing ''

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'' service.

References

External links

MARTA station pagenycsubway.org Atlanta page

Station from Google Maps Street View
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