Cromwell
Station/
Glen Burnie
Station/
Glen Burnie
Ferndale
Glen Burnie (formerly Cromwell Station/Glen Burnie) opened on May 20, 1993 as southern terminus and southern-most station of the Baltimore LightRail Link. The station consists of two tracks just off Baltimore-Annapolis Blvd. The platforms have a unique configuration with an island platform between the two tracks and a side platform serving exclusively the westernmost track. The island platform doesn't have any mini-high platform ramps for ADA access, instead there are ramps at each end of the side platform. The eastern track's ADA ramps are nestled between the track and the sidewalk of Baltimore/Annapolis Blvd. The side platform is wide and directly connects to a four sawtooth-bay bus loop. Platform amenities are just bus shelters. When I visited in 2015 these were just two blue, white domed shelters along the island platform, along with two blue shelters (that are slightly wider) closer to the bus bays.
This bus loop connects with vehicular grade-crossings just beyond each end of the platforms. These grade-crossings provide the only entrances and exits to the station's 795 parking spaces, although there is a special row of Kiss & Ride and ADA parking spaces just beyond the station's bus loop, followed by a large parking lot.
The parking lot is surrounded by railroad tracks on all four sides. On the northern end is an unelectrified industrial spur to some industry north of the station. I believe that this spur is no longer used by a freight customer since the printing plant just north of the station closed in 1999. It is now only used by some light rail maintenance of way equipment, with the track continuing to near the northern end of the Cromwell Light Rail Maintenance and Yard facility.
LRVs enter the yard via a single track exclusively along the southern end of the station's parking lot. This track curves south at the southern edge of the parking lot before connecting exclusively to the south with only the western track that enters the station. The eastern track ends at a bumper block just across from here. This is just beyond the grade-crossing with terminating trains using a crossover north of the station to choose a track to enter the station via. This requires LRVs entering and leaving the yard to change direction on this single tail track. There is also another siding track (next to this tail track) that is exclusively accessible from the western station track.
Photos 1-7: June 16, 2009; 8-25: October 10, 2015;
