Forest Glen (Washington Metro)

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Forest Glen

Station statistics

Address

9730 Georgia Avenue
Forest Glen, MD 20910

Lines

Red Line

Tracks

Parking

596 spaces

Bicycle facilities

42 racks, 16 lockers

Other information

Opened

September 22, 1990

Accessible

Code

B09

Owned by

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority

Services

Preceding station		Metrorail		Following station
Silver Spring toward Shady Grove		Red Line		Wheaton toward Glenmont

Forest Glen is a Washington Metro station in Montgomery County, Maryland on the Red Line.

The station serves the residential suburb of Forest Glen, and is located at Georgia Avenue (Maryland Route 97) and Forest Glen Road. The station is the deepest in the system at 196 feet (60 meters) deep, so deep that escalators were not used for access to the surface. It is the only station in the system without direct surface access. Instead, there is a bank of six elevators that supply very fast access (within ten seconds) between the station and the surface. In addition, a 20-story staircase exists for emergency use.

Because of the lack of escalators, Forest Glen is the only station equipped with a special trackbed fire suppression system and smoke doors to protect customers during a train fire and evacuation.

Another architectural feature of this station is separate tunnels and platforms for each direction, instead of the large, vaulted common room seen at most other underground stations. This design, shared with Wheaton, was used to save money due to the station's depth.

Service began on September 22, 1990.