| Backlick Road | |||||||||
| Style: | Virginia Railway Express | ||||||||
| Address: | 6900 Hechinger Drive Springfield, VA | ||||||||
| Country: | United States | ||||||||
| Coordinates: | 38.7969°N -77.1839°W | ||||||||
| Line: | Norfolk Southern Railway | ||||||||
| Other: | Fairfax Connector: 321, 322, 401, 402 Metrobus: 18J | ||||||||
| Platform: | 1 side platform | ||||||||
| Tracks: | 2 | ||||||||
| Parking: | 220 spaces | ||||||||
| Bicycle: | Bicycle racks | ||||||||
| Passengers: | Around 150 per weekday | ||||||||
| Opened: | 1992[1] | ||||||||
| Accessible: | Yes | ||||||||
| Zone: | 3 | ||||||||
| Mapframe: | yes | ||||||||
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Backlick Road station is located at 6900 Hechinger Drive in Springfield, Virginia. The station serves the Virginia Railway Express Manassas Line on weekdays.
Only some Manassas Line trains stop at the station; it is bypassed by two inbound trains and one outbound train each day.
The station serves a right-of-way first laid down in the 1840s by the Orange and Alexandria Railroad. The O&A's Springfield station, which stood on or near the site of today's facility, was briefly seized by Confederate troops in 1861, recaptured by Union troops, and raided again the following year. The current structure was built in 1992, one of the VRE's original stations.[2]
The right-of-way passed via successor railroads to its current owner, Norfolk Southern. Additional trackage rights are held by VRE and Amtrak, whose Cardinal and Crescent trains pass through Backlick Road station but do not stop there.