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@Adam L, referring to your earlier post on turning around Silver Line trains between the McLean and East Falls Church station, I don't believe there are any provisions or plans to do that. A pocket track on the east side of the McLean station would allow the trains to turn around, but that would result in some Silver trains running completely separated from the rest of the system. A Silver train that turned around at East Falls Church would allow for transfers, but EFC will be a long run from the McLean station and the 2 track segment would be a bottleneck, even if the train could turn around there.

Too bad the West Falls Church station was not located a little further east on I-66. Maybe then the Silver Line spur could have been designed to connect on the western side of the WFC station. With 3 tracks, WFC could probably be used as a turnaround point for some of the Silver trains to create a WFC to Loudoun subset.

by AlanF on Jun 25, 2012 4:27 pm • link • report

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