page_title: Red Line (Washington Metro)
section_title: 2004 Woodley Park accident
hierarchical_section_title: Red Line (Washington Metro) / Incidents and Accidents / 2004 Woodley Park accident
caption_attribution_description: NTSB photo of the November 3, 2004 accident at the Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan station on the Washington Metro. Car 1077 is telescoped, on top of car 4018.
context_page_description: The Red Line is a rapid transit line of the Washington Metro system, consisting of 27 stations in Montgomery County, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., in the United States. It is a primary line through downtown Washington and the oldest, busiest, and longest line in the system. It forms a long, narrow "U", capped by its terminal stations at Shady Grove and Glenmont.
  Trains run most frequently during morning and evening rush hours and least frequently after 9:30 p.m.
  The Red Line is the only line in the system that does not share its tracks with another Metrorail line. However, it runs parallel to the Metropolitan Subdivision between Washington Union Station and Silver Spring as well as between Twinbrook and Shady Grove stations. These tracks used to be part of the former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad route. The MARC commuter rail system uses this parallel route with stops in Silver Spring and Rockville when traveling between Washington and Martinsburg, West Virginia, while Amtrak uses this parallel route with a stop in Rockville when traveling the Capitol Limited route between Washington, D.C. and the Chicago Union Station.
context_section_description: On November 3, 2004, an out-of-service Red Line train rolled backward into the Woodley Park station and hit an in-service train stopped at the platform. No one was killed, but 20 people were injured. A 14-month investigation concluded that the train operator was most likely not alert as the train rolled backward into the station. Safety officials estimated that had the train been full, at least 79 would have died. The train operator was dismissed and Metro officials agreed to add rollback protection to more than 300 rail cars.
caption: Accident at the Woodley Park station on November 3, 2004
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