Wilmington Station (Delaware)

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Wilmington
Station statistics
Address	100 South French Street Wilmington, DE 19801
Lines	Amtrak: Acela Express Cardinal and Hoosier State Carolinian Crescent Palmetto Silver Meteor Silver Star Northeast Regional Vermonter SEPTA: R2
Connections	Thruway Motorcoach DART First State bus routes
Other information
Accessible
Code	WIL
Fare zone	4 (SEPTA Only)
Traffic
Passengers (2007)	704,387 ▼ 1%
Services
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station Baltimore toward Washington Acela Express Philadelphia toward Boston (South) Baltimore toward Chicago Cardinal Philadelphia toward New York Baltimore toward Charlotte Carolinian Baltimore toward New Orleans Crescent Baltimore toward Savannah Palmetto Newark toward Newport News Northeast Regional Philadelphia toward Boston (South) or Springfield Baltimore toward Miami Silver Meteor Philadelphia toward New York Silver Star Baltimore toward Washington Vermonter Philadelphia toward St. Albans Preceding station   SEPTA   Following station Churchmans Crossing toward Newark R2 Claymont toward Warminster

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

Wilmington Train Station is a passenger rail station in Wilmington, Delaware, formerly known as Pennsylvania Station. The station is located on Front Street between French and Walnut Streets in downtown Wilmington. It has one inside level which has stores, a cafe, Amtrak and SEPTA ticket offices, a car rental office, and a post office; passengers board their trains on the second story train platforms. It is served by Amtrak trains along the Northeast Corridor going south to Baltimore and Washington, D.C., and going north to Philadelphia and New York, the Silver Star and the Silver Meteor to Florida, and the Cardinal to Chicago. It is also served by SEPTA's R2 Regional Rail Line with service to Philadelphia and Newark, Delaware. Like all stations in Delaware, SEPTA service is provided under contract and funded through DART First State, which also provides extensive local bus service.

Continental Airlines code shares on some Amtrak trains between Wilmington and Newark Liberty International Airport. For this reason, Wilmington Station is assigned the IATA airport code of ZWI.

The station was built in 1908 by the Pennsylvania Railroad, and replaced an earlier station erected by the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad. This station, along with the adjacent Pennsylvania Building (which housed the offices for the Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad) and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad's Water Street freight depot, were designed by renowned architect Frank Furness.

Wilmington Station also provides Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach service to Dover and Seaford, Delaware, and Salisbury, Maryland

[edit] DART First State bus connections

• #2, #6, #7, #10, #11, #12, #16, #17, #20, #21, #22, #28, #32, #35, #38, #59, #301, and #305 (seasonally)

[edit] External links

• Amtrak - Stations - Wilmington, DE

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

• SEPTA station page for Wilmington
• Wilmington Amtrak & SEPTA Station (USA RailGuide -- TrainWeb)

• Wilmington Station (Delaware) is at coordinates 39°44′12″N 75°33′04″W / 39.736696, -75.551026 (Wilmington Station (Delaware))Coordinates: 39°44′12″N 75°33′04″W / 39.736696, -75.551026 (Wilmington Station (Delaware))