| Amherst | |||||||||||
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Amherst Massachusetts Amtrak Station. |
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| Address | 13 Railroad Street Amherst, MA 01002 |
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| Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||
| Parking | free | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 1853 | ||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1992 | ||||||||||
| Code | AMM | ||||||||||
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| Passengers (2010) | 14,600[1] 7.5% | ||||||||||
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Amherst is an Amtrak station in Amherst, Massachusetts on the Vermonter. It is located at 13 Railroad Street, off Main Street. The station was originally built in 1853 by the Central Vermont Railroad and was restored in 1992.[2] The station building shares space with Amherst Pilates, a fitness studio.
Of the eleven Amtrak stations in Massachusetts, Amherst was the eighth busiest in FY2010, boarding or detraining an average of approximately 40 passengers daily.[1] A realignment of the Vermonter route to the old Montrealer route (to the other side of the Connecticut River: still serving the major city of Springfield, but then, instead of traveling to Palmer and Amherst, traveling instead up the Connecticut River Valley to the cities of Chicopee, Holyoke, Northampton and Greenfield, before reaching Brattleboro, Vermont. Vermonter service to Amherst is expected to be discontinued in late 2012 or early 2013.
Amherst's train station, however, will not lie dormant. It is scheduled become part of the Central Corridor Rail Line, with a southern terminus in New London, Connecticut and a northern terminus in Brattleboro, Vermont, where it will meet the re-tooled Vermonter en route to Montreal.
The station is close to Amherst College and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
