Farragut North is a Washington Metro station in Washington, D.C., on the Red Line.
Farragut North serves downtown Washington and is located just north of Farragut Square.
It lies at the heart of the business district on Connecticut Avenue, with two entrances at
L Street and one at K Street.
It is the third-busiest station in the Metrorail system, averaging 27,200 passengers per
weekday as of May 3, 2006.
It is also one of the most shallow, with a lower-than-usual ceiling. The low, flat ceiling at the
west end was built to accommodate a proposed freeway ramp to Interstate 66, which was
never built.
Service began on March 27, 1976.
Farragut North station features unique architecture throughout the system. Its mezzanine
stretches across more of the platform and is longer than most, with an open depression looking
onto the platform in the middle.
There are two elevated "aisles" that serve different escalators and exits. Special buttress-like
structures support these stretches of the mezzanine.
The station is named for the adjacent Farragut Square, which takes its name from Admiral
David Farragut, the senior officer of the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War.
On February 12, 2010 at approximately 10:13 a.m. a train derailed in the pocket track immediately
north of this station when the front car left the tracks. Of the nearly 400 passengers onboard, only
one person was transported to the hospital. All of the passengers were evacuated without incident.
The cause of the derailment is still under investigation.
October 8, 2018