| Wilmington Amtrak station SEPTA Regional Rail commuter station |
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Wilmington Station during the 2010 reconstruction, as seen from the parking garage across the street |
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| Address | 100 South French Street Wilmington, DE 19801 |
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| Lines | Amtrak: SEPTA Regional Rail: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Connections | Thruway Motorcoach DART First State: 2, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, 28, 32, 35, 38, 45, 59, 301, and 305 (seasonally) |
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| Platforms | 2 side platforms, 1 island platform | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parking | Yes; Garages and side street parking | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Yes; in parking garage on French Street south of the tracks | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Baggage check | Available for Cardinal, Carolinian, Crescent, Palmetto, Silver Meteor and Silver Star services | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1908 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 2011 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Code | WIL | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Amtrak | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fare zone | 4 (SEPTA) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Formerly | French Street | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Passengers (2010) | 696,979[1] 4.9% (Amtrak) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Joseph R. Biden Jr. Railroad Station, normally called Wilmington 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. Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach service is provided through the station to Dover and Seaford, Delaware, and Salisbury, Maryland. It is also served by SEPTA's Wilmington/Newark 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.
Wilmington Station changed its name to Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Railroad Station at a public ceremony on 19 March 2011, in honor of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, who took over 7,000 round trips from the station during his U.S. Senate career.[3][4] It will still be referred to simply as Wilmington in station announcements.[3]
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The station was built in 1907 by the Pennsylvania Railroad,[5] 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.[5]
Wilmington Station has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1976.[6] A renovation project was conducted in 1984.[5] The National Register added the adjacent railroad viaduct in 1999.[7]
A two-year, $37.7 million restoration of the station was active throughout 2010; about ⅔ of the funding for this project was from United States government stimulus funds.[3][5] All customer operations, including platform access, was housed in a temporary station adjacent to the main station during the restoration period.[5] The station reopened to customers December 6, 2010, and final work was completed in March 2011.[3][8]
Of the two Delaware stations served by Amtrak, Wilmington was the busier during the 2010 fiscal year, boarding or detraining an average of approximately 1900 passengers daily. It is the twelfth-busiest station within the Amtrak system.[1]
Media related to [//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wilmington_Station Wilmington Station] at Wikimedia Commons
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