Monocacy station

Monocacy
MARC commuter rail station
General information
Location	7800 Genstar Drive, Frederick, Maryland[1]
Coordinates	39°22′55″N 77°23′41″W / 39.3820°N 77.3947°W / 39.3820; -77.3947
Line(s)	Frederick Branch
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	2
Connections	MTA Maryland Bus TransIT Services of Frederick
Construction
Parking	Yes
Accessible	Yes[2]
History
Opened	December 17, 2001[3]
Passengers
November 2022	92 (daily)[4] (MARC)
Services
Preceding station MARC Following station Frederick Terminus Brunswick Line Dickerson towards Union Station

Monocacy (/məˈnɒkəsi/) is a passenger rail station on the MARC Brunswick Line between Washington, D.C. and Frederick, Maryland. This station is one of two stations on the Frederick extension.^[5] It is also the only station on the Brunswick Line other than Union Station to have a high-level platform. There is also a low level platform at the north end of the station.^{[citation needed]}

Monocacy station is located at 7800 Genstar Drive, a cul-de-sac with a large parking lot off the east side of Maryland Route 355 in Frederick. It was built on the old Frederick Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The architects of Cochran, Stephenson & Donkervoet, Inc. designed the small station to resemble B&O stations from the past.^{[citation needed]}

Bus connections

MTA Maryland Commuter Bus

• Route 204
• Route 515

TransIT Services of Frederick

• TransIT Route 20
• TransIT Route 10(By request only)

History

Monocacy Station, served at the time by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, played a brief but key role during John Brown's 1859 raid on the Federal Armory in nearby Harpers Ferry, Virginia (since 1863, West Virginia). Because John Brown's rebels cut the Railroad's telegraph line, no news of the rebellion reached Baltimore, the Railroad's center of operations, for several hours. The one train Brown eventually let proceed through Harpers Ferry and over the B & O Railroad Potomac River Crossing into Maryland stopped at Monocacy, which was the next station with staff and a telegraph, something not available in the stations at the hamlets of Sandy Hook, Maryland, and Point of Rocks, Maryland. The conductor stopped the train and sent a message about the abolitionist rebellion to B&O headquarters. After confirming it, the Railroad notified President James Buchanan, Virginia Governor Henry A. Wise, and other officials about the raid/revolt, beginning the operation to suppress it.

References

External links

• Monocacy station official website