Spring Hill station (preliminary names Tysons West, Tysons–Spring Hill Road) is a

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station in

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, on the Silver Line. Located in Tysons, it began operation on July 26, 2014. The station is located in the central median of Leesburg Pike (SR 7) just west of Spring Hill Road. There had been some

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about whether to build the rail through Tysons below ground or on elevated tracks. The efforts to build a tunnel through all of Tysons failed, and the current design has the main platform with a height of at its east end and at its west end. The station is about from , the next station to the west, but only about from directly to the southeast. Spring Hill is the least used DC Metro station in Fairfax County at 609 entries per weekday in 2023.

Station facilities

*2 station entrances (each side of SR 7)

History

From May 23 until August 15, 2020, this station was closed due to the Platform Reconstruction west of and the Silver Line Phase II tie construction. This station reopened beginning on August 16, 2020, when trains were able to bypass

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