Lancaster (Amtrak station)

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Lancaster
Station statistics
Address	53 McGovern Avenue Lancaster, PA 16072
Lines	Keystone Service, Pennsylvanian
Other service	Capitol Trailways
Other information
Passengers (2006)	368,076 10.3%
Code	LNC
Owned by	Amtrak

Lancaster Train Station is an Amtrak rail station and intercity bus facility located at 53 McGovern Avenue, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The station is located at the north end of the city, roughly a mile from downtown Lancaster.

The Lancaster Train Station is served by all Amtrak Keystone Service and Pennsylvanian trains. As of July 2006, there are 11 weekday and six weekend trains that stop daily in each direction at the station. Primary cities served on Amtrak to and from Lancaster include Philadelphia and New York to the east and Harrisburg, Altoona (Pennsylvanian only), and Pittsburgh (Pennsylvanian only) to the west. Both staffed and Quik-Trak machine ticket service are available for all departures and red cap service is also available. In Federal Fiscal Year 2005, there were 333,812 Amtrak boardings plus alightings at the Lancaster Train Station. It is the third busiest Amtrak station in Pennsylvania and 28th busiest in the United States, ranking just behind the Harrisburg Transportation Center in both categories [1].

There is also an intercity bus provider, Capitol Trailways, that provides service to the station. Capitol Trailways connects Lancaster to York and Harrisburg to the west and to Ephrata, PA, King of Prussia, PA, Willow Grove, PA, and New York, NY to the east, as well as many cities and towns beyond those listed via transfers.

Finally, the local public transit operator in the Lancaster area, Red Rose Transit Authority, has one metro area bus (Route 3) that stops at the station and a few county-wide buses operating north of Lancaster city that stop close to the station.