BWI Rail Station
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This article is about a regional and inter-city rail station; for the light rail station at BWI, please see Baltimore Light Rail.
| BWI Airport Rail Station | |||
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| Address | 7 Amtrak Way BWI Airport, MD 21240 |
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| Routes | Acela Express - Carolinian - Metroliner - Regional - Vermonter | ||
| Other service | MARC Penn Line | ||
| Code | BWI | ||
| Owned by | Amtrak | ||
The BWI Airport Rail Station is a train station in Linthicum, Maryland, located just over a mile from Baltimore-Washington International Airport (BWI). It was dedicated on October 23, 1980, and was the first intercity rail station in the U.S. built to service an airport. The station is about a 10-minute train ride south of Baltimore Penn Station, a 20-minute ride north of New Carrollton, Maryland (and a Washington Metro station), and a 35-minute ride north of Union Station in Washington, D.C. Transportation between the station and the airport terminal is free, via a 5–10 minute trip on airport-operated shuttle buses that depart every 10 minutes between 5 AM and 1 AM and every 25 minutes between 1 AM and 5 AM.
The station is part of Amtrak's Northeast Corridor and is served by the MARC Penn Line as well as the following Amtrak routes:
The station's small station building, which houses a ticketing desk, waiting room, and small concessions area, is dwarfed by the adjacent parking garage, filled by the many local commuters who ride the rails to work in Baltimore or Washington. The massive garage was built in the late 1990s to replace a smaller surface lot and is rarely filled.
[edit] Connecting transportation
- There are usually—if not always—taxis queued at the station to meet arriving trains.
- The station is indirectly connected—via the aforementioned airport shuttle bus—to Baltimore Light Rail, for which there is a station at the airport terminal.
- MTA bus route 17 serves the station; it goes to Arundel Mills in one direction and the Patapsco Baltimore Light Rail station in the other.
- The BWI Trail, a hiker/biker trail, runs by the station.
