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The Ashland Transportation Center and Amtrak station. |
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| Address | 99 15th Street Ashland, KY 41101 |
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| Connections | Ashland Bus System | ||||||||||
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| Code | AKY | ||||||||||
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| Passengers (FY2010) | 2,771[1] 5.3% | ||||||||||
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The Ashland Amtrak station is located in the Ashland Transportation Center, a former Chesapeake and Ohio Railway freight house originally built in the 1890s. Located at 99 15th Street, the facility is near downtown Ashland, Kentucky and a short distance from the original Chesapeake and Ohio Railway station (now a PNC Bank branch).
The station is operated in co-operation with Greyhound Lines and the Ashland Bus System. It has no Amtrak agent, with no station services. The station serves Amtrak's Cardinal, trains 50 & 51. The tracks at the station are currently owned by CSX Transportation.
Amtrak services to the area were formerly located in nearby Catlettsburg from 1974 until 1998, when the current facility was restored.[2]
Of the four Kentucky stations served by Amtrak, Ashland was the second-busiest in FY2010, boarding or detraining an average of approximately 8 passengers daily.[1]