Centennial Station

Centennial Station Amtrak inter-city rail station
Centennial (Olympia-Lacey) Amtrak Depot
Station statistics
Address	6600 Yelm Highway SE Lacey, Washington 98513[3]  United States
Coordinates	46°59′29″N 122°47′39″W / 46.99145°N 122.79403°W / 46.99145; -122.79403Coordinates: 46°59′29″N 122°47′39″W / 46.99145°N 122.79403°W / 46.99145; -122.79403
Line(s)	Amtrak Cascades   Coast Starlight
Connections	Intercity Transit
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	2
Parking	Free
Baggage check	No
Other information
Opened	1993[4][5]
Accessible
Station code	OLW
Owned by	BNSF Railway & Intercity Transit[5]
Traffic
Passengers (2013)	63,065[6]  2.8%
Services
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station Centralia, WA toward Los Angeles Coast Starlight Tacoma toward Seattle Centralia, WA toward Eugene Cascades Tacoma toward Vancouver, BC     Former services     Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station Tacoma toward Seattle Pioneer Discontinued in 1997 Centralia, WA toward Chicago
Location
Location of Centennial Station within Washington

The Centennial Station (also known as the Olympia-Lacey Amtrak Station) is a train station located immediately south of Lacey, Washington, United States that also serves the capital city of Olympia. The station is served by Amtrak's (the National Railroad Passenger Corporation) Amtrak Cascades and Coast Starlight.

Although the Amtrak Cascades runs between Eugene, Oregon and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, there is no train that starts at one terminus and ends at the other. However, each day eight Amtrak Cascades trains (four northbound and four southbound) stop at the Centennial Station.^{[Note 1]} The Coast Starlight has a simpler, less frequent schedule and runs daily in each direction between Los Angeles, California and Seattle.^{[Note 2]} (The next northbound stop on both Amtrak trains is in Tacoma and the next southbound stop is in Centralia.)

Local transit connections are provided by Intercity Transit. Bus routes 64 and 94 connect to Lacey and Olympia Transit centers.^[7][8]

Of the eighteen Washington stations served by Amtrak, Olympia-Lacey was the fifth busiest in fiscal year 2010, boarding or detraining an average of about 170 passengers daily.^[9]

History

The original Union Pacific station at East Olympia was demolished in the late 1960s. It was used by the pool trains that ran between Seattle and Portland by all three railroads that used the line, Northern Pacific, Great Northern, and Union Pacific. Amtrak trains during the 1970s and 1980s used a wooden shelter as East Olympia's passenger train station, however the station site was remote and had no public transport, no lighting and a pot-holed gravel parking lot with a public telephone that rarely worked.^[10]

The new Centennial Station was built by the non-profit Amtrak Depot Committee and opened in early 1993 following a six-year fundraising and lobbying effort by citizens of Thurston County. It is believed to be the only Amtrak station in the nation operated entirely by volunteers.^[4]

Notes

References

External links

• Media related to Centennial Station at Wikimedia Commons

• Amtrak – Stations – Olympia, WA
• Intercity Transit website

• Amtrak – Stations – ATK-07-056