History
The station opened on August 25, 1984. Its opening coincided with the completion of 6.8 miles (10.9 km) of rail northwest of the Van Ness–UDC station and the opening of the Bethesda, Grosvenor, Medical Center and Tenleytown stations. This station is relatively deep, since it is the fifth deepest station on the Red Line. The escalator ride from the common room at the north entrance to the mezzanine level takes roughly a minute and a half.
To enable Metro to perform train turnarounds south of Grosvenor-Strathmore, a diamond crossover exists just north of the station. Occasionally, during rush hours, trains terminate here for schedule adjustments. When trains occasionally terminate here during rush hours or other instances such as track maintenance, trains offload their passengers on the Shady Grove bound track, exit the station, switch direction just north of the interlocking, and then run through the interlocking to the Glenmont (downtown) track.
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