Seabrook station is a station on the

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located in the

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Seabrook, Maryland Seabrook is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, located approximately east of Washington, D.C. Per the 2020 census, the population was 19,627. Prior to 2010, Seabrook ...

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. It is served by most weekday MARC Penn Line trains; all

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and weekend MARC Penn Line trains pass through without stopping. It is located at 6221 Seabrook Road south of Lanham Severn Road (

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) in Seabrook, although MARC gives the location as being in

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. The station is unstaffed and is located at the end of a dead-end street. Parking is available on the southeast corner of the official address, and also on the opposite side of the tracks on the northeast corner of Seabrook Road and Smith Avenue.

Station layout

The present high-level platforms were built in the late 1980s, replacing bare asphalt platforms near the now-closed Seabrook Road level crossing. Prior to the mid-1980s two

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were located just northeast of the station near

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. They were both closed as part of the Northeast Corridor Improvement Plan and replaced with an underpass.

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Station from Google Maps Street View
MARC Train stations Penn Line Stations on the Northeast Corridor Railway stations in Prince George's County, Maryland Seabrook, Maryland Former Pennsylvania Railroad stations {{Maryland-railstation-stub