BWI Rail Station

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Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport Rail Station
A train of MARC III Kawasaki bi-levels at BWI Rail Station on the Penn Line headed towards Baltimore.
Station statistics
Address	7 Amtrak Way BWI Airport, MD 21240
Lines	Amtrak: Acela Express Northeast Regional Vermonter MARC: Penn Line
Connections	Baltimore Light Rail
Other information
Code	BWI
Owned by	Amtrak
Traffic
Passengers (2007)	587,845 ▲ 5%
Services
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station Washington Terminus Acela Express Baltimore toward Boston (South) New Carrollton toward Newport News Northeast Regional Baltimore toward Boston (South) or Springfield New Carrollton toward Washington Vermonter Baltimore toward St. Albans Preceding station   MARC   Following station Odenton toward Washington Penn Line Halethorpe toward Perryville

The Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport Rail Station is an Amtrak and MARC commuter rail train station in Linthicum, Maryland. It is located on the airport complex just over a mile from the main terminal of Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. A free shuttle bus runs between the station and the airport terminal every 15 minutes from 5 a.m.–1 a.m. and every 25 minutes from 1 a.m.–5 a.m.

The station was dedicated on October 23, 1980 and was the first intercity rail station in the U.S. built to service an airport. It is about a 10-minute train ride south of Baltimore's Penn Station, a 20-minute ride north of New Carrollton, Maryland (and its connection with the Orange Line of Washington Metro), and a 35-minute ride north of Washington's Union Station.

The station is part of Amtrak's Northeast Corridor and is served by the MARC Penn Line as well as the following Amtrak routes:

• Acela Express
• Northeast Regional
• Vermonter

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.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Platform renovations

Amtrak is nearing completion on the station's first major renovation project, started in 2006, to rebuild the 1,050 ft southbound platform. The existing high-level platform structure was completely replaced with new precast concrete segments, and new signs, lights, shelters, railing, canopies, and benches were installed.

A project to rebuild the northbound platform with identical facilities is in the design phase; construction will commence as funds become available.^[1]

[edit] Connecting transportation

Northeast Corridor
Legend Boston South Station Boston Back Bay Route 128 Providence Kingston Westerly Mystic New London Springfield Hartford New Haven Bridgeport Stamford New Rochelle New York City Newark Metropark Princeton Junction Trenton Philadephia Wilmington Baltimore BWI Airport New Carrollton Washington DC

• 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 stop (BWI Airport Light Rail Stop) 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.

[edit] External links

• Amtrak - Stations - BWI Rail Station

• Ridership figures, FY 2004
• Ridership figures, FY 2005
• Ridership figures, FY 2006
• Ridership figures, FY 2007

• BWI Rail Station is at coordinates 39°11′33″N 76°41′41″W / 39.192377, -76.694645 (BWI Rail Station)Coordinates: 39°11′33″N 76°41′41″W / 39.192377, -76.694645 (BWI Rail Station)

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