| Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport Rail Station Amtrak station MARC commuter rail station |
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BWI Rail Station as viewed from the parking garage. |
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| Address | 7001 Amtrak Way Linthicum, MD 21240 |
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| Lines | Amtrak:
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| Connections | Baltimore Light Rail via Shuttle bus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parking | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1980 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Code | BWI | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Amtrak | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Passengers (2010) | 654,151[1] 6% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport Rail Station is an Amtrak and MARC commuter rail train station in Linthicum, an unincorporated area in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States.
The station 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.
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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 20-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:
Of the six Maryland stations served by Amtrak, BWI Rail Station was the second-busiest in FY2010, boarding or detraining an average of approximately 1800 passengers daily.[1]
The station's building houses a ticketing desk, waiting room, and a concessions area. The adjacent parking garage is used by commuters who ride the train to work in Baltimore or Washington, and also contains the bus stop for shuttles to the BWI terminal. The garage was built in the late 1990s to replace a smaller surface lot. It contains 3,200 parking spaces and does not typically fill to capacity.[2]
A project to rebuild and lengthen the 1,050 ft southbound and northbound platforms was begin in 2006 and completed in late 2010.[3] The existing high-level platform structures are being completely replaced with new precast concrete segments, and new signs, lights, shelters, railing, canopies, and benches are being installed.[4]
$9.4 million has been allocated for design and engineering of a new station building and fourth track, which is expected to cost $80–100 million. The existing station will be demolished to make way for the new track and platform, and a new station — twice the size of the old — will be built.[5][6]