page_title: Northern Virginia trolleys
section_title: Fairfax line stations
hierarchical_section_title: Northern Virginia trolleys / Washington-Virginia Railway / Washington, Arlington & Falls Church Railway / Fairfax line / Fairfax line stations
caption_attribution_description: English: BUILT IN 1905 AND IS THE ONLY REMAINING STATION ON THE WASHINGTON AND FAIRFAX ELECTRIC RAILWAY WHICH OPERATED FROM 1904 TO 1939 This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 95000026
context_page_description: The earliest electric railway, or streetcar line, in Northern Virginia opened in 1892. At their peak, when merged into a single interurban system, the successors of this and several other lines ran between downtown Washington, D.C., Rosslyn and Arlington Junction – in present-day Crystal City – and out to Mount Vernon, Fairfax City and Nauck.
  Electric trolleys also went west from Georgetown and Rosslyn on the Washington and Old Dominion Railway's Bluemont Division, traveling through Herndon and Leesburg to reach the town of Bluemont at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Those on the W&OD's Great Falls Division traveled from Georgetown and Rosslyn via Cherrydale and McLean to Great Falls.
  Despite early success, the trolleys were unable to compete with the automobile and with each other. Plagued with management and financial problems, the last ended their operations in the 1930s and early 1940s during the Great Depression.
  Northern Virginia's trolleys were originally operated by three different companies that all planned to operate within the District of Columbia and were never integrated into the Washington streetcar network.
context_section_description: The stations of the Fairfax line were (with locations of sites in 2008):
caption: Oakton Trolley Station (2012)
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