16th StreetâÂÂWoodside station is a light rail station under construction in the Woodside neighborhood of Silver Spring, Maryland. To be located on 16th Street, it will be part of Maryland's Purple Line, which is scheduled to open in 2027.
The Purple Line at Woodside follows the right-of-way of the Metropolitan Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O), which opened in 1872.
In 1889, Benjamin LeightonâÂÂlawyer, banker, real estate developer, and future dean of Howard Law SchoolâÂÂplatted the Woodside subdivision. The following year, he built a station for the B&O at Woodside to increase the value of his land. Designed in Victorian style, the station sat on the north side of the tracks at 3rd Avenue, between its present-day intersections with Ballard Street and Noyes Drive. After 1897, pedestrians could connect to the Forest Glen Trolley station three blocks away, at the intersection of present-day Georgia Avenue and Ballard Street.
The station burned down in the 1920s. The B&O later built a section house at the site, near the junction with the Georgetown Branch.
At Woodside, the Purple Line runs south of the tracks of the CSX railroad's Metropolitan Subdivision, which run south of the Capital Crescent Trail. It will have two side platforms.