page_title: Rainier Beach station
section_title: Station layout
hierarchical_section_title: Rainier Beach station / Station layout
caption_attribution_description: English: By Flickr user litlnemo, https://www.flickr.com/photos/litlnemo/3055242732/, picture of the Rainier Beach Link Light Rail Station in Seattle.
context_page_description: Rainier Beach is a light rail station in Seattle, Washington. It is between the Tukwila International Boulevard and Othello stations on Line 1. The line runs from Seattle–Tacoma International Airport to Downtown Seattle and the University of Washington as part of the Link light rail system. The station consists of an at-grade island platform south of South Henderson Street in the median of Martin Luther King Jr. Way in the Rainier Beach neighborhood, part of Seattle's Rainier Valley.
  The Rainier Beach area was proposed for light rail service in 1995 and included in the final plan for Central Link approved in 1999. Construction on Rainier Beach station began in 2006, and regular train service began on July 18, 2009. Trains serve the station twenty hours a day on most days; the headway between trains is six minutes during peak periods, with less frequent service at other times. Rainier Beach station is also served by three King County Metro bus routes that connect it to Beacon Hill, Downtown Seattle, Georgetown, Mount Baker and Renton. The station also has six art installations that were funded by a systemwide art program.
context_section_description: Rainier Beach station consists of a single, at-grade island platform in the median of Martin Luther King Jr. Way South on the south side of South Henderson Street. The station has a single entrance at Henderson, accessible via two crosswalks. A small plaza on the northeast corner of the intersection has seating, a bicycle locker with 34 spaces, a bus stop, and public art. Rainier Beach station, like others in the Rainier Valley, was designed by architecture firm Arai/Jackson.
  Immediately south of the platform is an operator's building with washrooms and workrooms for staff, a janitor's closet, and supervisor's office. There is also an 800-foot-long (240 m) turnback track in the median of Martin Luther King Jr. Way to the south of the station that is used to store two 4-car trains for emergencies and headway management.
caption: The station's platform, 2009
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