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Red Line (MARTA)
Rapid transit line in the MARTA rail system

The Red Line is a rapid transit line in the MARTA rail system. It operates between North Springs and Airport stations, running through Sandy Springs, Dunwoody, Atlanta, East Point and College Park.

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History

What is now the Gold and Red Lines' shared section was originally opened on December 4, 1981, as the North-South Line between Garnett and North Avenue.12 On September 11, 1982, an infill station at Peachtree Center opened, while the North-South Line was extended south by one stop to West End station.34 On December 18 the same year, the North-South Line was extended northward to Midtown and Arts Center.56 On December 15, 1984, the Lakewood/​Fort McPherson, Oakland City, and Lindbergh Center stations all opened, as did the Lenox, and Brookhaven on what was then the northernmost portion of the North-South Line (what is now the Gold Line).78 East Point station opened on August 16, 1986, followed by Chamblee (now a Gold Line station) on December 19, 1987, and the College Park and Airport on June 18, 1988.910 Finally, Doraville (later the northern terminus of the Gold Line) opened on December 29, 1992.1112

On June 8, 1996, MARTA added a new branch of the North-South Line, with stations at Buckhead, Medical Center, and Dunwoody: the first rail stations served exclusively by what is now the Red Line.13 To distinguish the two lines, the line to Dunwoody assumed the North-South Rail Line name,1415 while the line to Doraville became the Northeast-South Rail Line16 (sometimes known as the Northeast Line for short).17 However, both the North-South Line and the Northeast Line continued to be colored on maps in orange as a single North-South Rail Line.1819

In December 2006, the North-South Line began to be colored as red, distinguishing it from the Northeast Line, which retained the color orange.20 Later, in October 2009, MARTA introduced a color-coded system of naming rail lines, with the North-South Line being renamed to the Red Line, and the Northeast Line being renamed to the Yellow Line,21 22 and then to the Gold Line.23

Future

On March 25, 2024, Andre Dickens, the mayor of Atlanta, announced plans for four new infill stations on the MARTA rail network, with one of them, Murphy Crossing, being a station on the Red and Gold Lines' shared section. Murphy Crossing will be on the west side of the Atlanta Beltline.24 On April 11, Dickens announced that another one of the four proposed stations will also be shared by the Red and Gold Lines: namely, Armour Yards, located near the similarly-named Armour Yard.25

Operations

Now known as the Red Line, it shares trackage with its counterpart, the Gold Line, between Airport and just north of the Lindbergh Center.

On weekdays, after 8:30 pm, Red Line shuttle train service operates between North Springs and Lindbergh Center stations only until the end of the service. On Saturdays and Sundays, Red Line shuttle train service operates between North Springs and Lindbergh Center stations only from 8:50 pm until the end of the service. When major single tracking occurs, Red Line train service operates between North Springs and Lindbergh Center stations only.26

Line description

The Red Line runs above ground, at-grade and below ground in various portions of its route. It begins at the northern terminus, the North Springs station in Sandy Springs. The non-revenue tracks extend northward from the station. It then goes southward paralleling GA 400 (Turner McDonald Parkway) before turning southeast to Dunwoody, then turning south to cross over I-285, then west before running south in the GA 400 median. In Buckhead, it crosses under the Gold Line before joining the Gold Line, going southwest paralleling I-85. It turns south through Midtown and enters downtown Atlanta, where it meets the Blue and Green Lines at Five Points station. Leaving downtown, the Red Line continues south, paralleling Lee Street and Main Street into East Point and College Park before reaching its terminus at the Airport station.

Stations

listed from north to south

StationCodeOpeningyearRail LineTransferService pattern
Main LineRegular serviceShuttle8:30 pm – 1:00 am
North SpringsN11December 16, 200027●●
Sandy SpringsN10●●
DunwoodyN9June 8, 199628●●
Medical CenterN8●●
BuckheadN7●●
Lindbergh Center29N6December 15, 198430 Gold ●●
Arts Center31N5December 18, 198232 Gold ●
Midtown33N4 Gold ●
North Avenue34N3December 4, 198135 Gold ●
Civic Center 36N2 Gold ●
Peachtree Center37N1September 11, 19823839 Gold  Streetcar ●
Five Points4041December 4, 198142 Gold  Blue  Green ●
Garnett43S1 Gold ●
West End44S2September 11, 19824546 Gold ●
Oakland City47S3December 15, 198448 Gold ●
Lakewood/Fort McPherson49S4 Gold ●
East Point50S5August 16, 1986 Gold ●
College Park51S6June 18, 1988.52 Gold ●
AirportS7 Gold ●
Template:Attached KML/Red Line (MARTA)KML is from Wikidata

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