West Falls Church is a
Washington Metro station in
Idylwood,
Virginia on the
Orange Line, the first station inside the beltway on the Orange Line going east. It is one of only two stations in the system to have three tracks, the other being the
National Airport station. The center track is used for train storage, and for relaying trains to the adjacent Falls Church Yard. The station serves the suburban community of
Falls Church and the Northern Virginia Center operated by
Virginia Tech and the
University of Virginia. While the station has a street address on Haycock Road, it is physically located in the
median of
Interstate 66 near
Virginia State Route 7 (Leesburg Pike); riders access the platform and mezzanine by means of an elevated walkway from the parking area. The
initialisms for the two universities were added to the station's name in 1999, two years after the dedication of the shared graduate center. These initialisms were moved to a subtitle location on November 3, 2011. Service began on June 7, 1986.