Glen Park station for kids
The Train Station Under the Ground. The true story of Glen Park station, near San Francisco, CA, told for kids.
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Whoosh! Way down under the street, a train is zooming by right now! This is Glen Park station, and it is one of the deepest stations in the whole BART system. When you ride the escalator down, you can see sixty feet of space.
That is about as tall as three or four giraffes standing on each other's heads! Wobbly giraffes, I know. And look at the very top. There are windows in the roof called skylights, so sunshine pours down into the underground station.
Most subways are dark, so that is a really neat surprise. Can you make a train sound? Let's all go, whooooosh, together!
Quiz the back seat
What lets sunshine into the underground station?
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Skylights. Skylights! They are windows in the roof, and the light shines all the way down to the platform.
3 fun facts
- Glen Park station is underground and one of the deepest in the BART system.
- The station structure is 60 feet tall at the escalator wells.
- Skylights let daylight reach the lower platform.
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