Silver Spring station (Baltimore and Ohio Railroad) facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Silver Spring, MD
Silver Spring station in 2012
History
Closed	1986 (Amtrak)
Former services
Preceding station MARC Following station Kensington towards Martinsburg or Frederick Brunswick Line Closed 2000 Union Station Terminus Preceding station Amtrak Following station Rockville toward Martinsburg Blue Ridge Discontinued 1986 Washington, D.C. toward Washington, D.C. Preceding station Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Following station Kensington toward Chicago Main Line Washington, DC toward Jersey City Woodside toward Chicago North Takoma toward Jersey City
Silver Spring Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	8100 Georgia Avenue Silver Spring, Maryland
Area	0.5 acres (0.20 ha)
Built	1945 (1945)
Built by	Steiner Construction Co.
Architect	Engineer of Buildings, B & O RR Co.
Architectural style	Colonial Revival
NRHP reference No.	00001035
Added to NRHP	August 31, 2000

Silver Spring station is a historic building located at Silver Spring in Montgomery County, Maryland on the Metropolitan Subdivision. It was built in 1945 on the foundation of the original station, a Victorian-style brick structure built in 1878. It was designed in the Colonial Revival style and built from standardized plans developed for B&O stations in the mid-1940s. Amtrak's Blue Ridge served the station until it was discontinued in 1986.

MARC Brunswick Line service at the station ended in 2000, and trains now stop at nearby Silver Spring station where transfer to the Washington Metro is available. The 1945 station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000 as the Silver Spring Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Station and restored in 2002.

The original 1940s waiting room furniture remains in the station, as are the original recessed fluorescent lighting fixtures. The Eastbound Waiting Room, a small rectangular building of similar design, stood on the south side of the tracks until it was lost to redevelopment in 2008. Originally built along with the station in 1945, it was razed and rebuilt in 1976, to make way for tracks laid for the Washington Metro. An underground pedestrian tunnel connecting the two buildings beneath the track bed still exists, but is closed to the public. The station is owned by Montgomery Preservation, Inc., a non-profit organization, which opens the building for tours.

• Silver Spring B&O Railroad Station, Montgomery County, Inventory No.: M: 36-15, including photo in 2004, at Maryland Historical Trust website