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BWI Rail Station
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| Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport Rail Station | |||||||||
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| A train of MARC III Kawasaki bi-levels at BWI Rail Station on the Penn Line headed towards Baltimore. | |||||||||
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| Address | 7 Amtrak Way BWI Airport, MD 21240 |
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| Lines | Amtrak:
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| Connections | Baltimore Light Rail | ||||||||
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| Code | BWI | ||||||||
| Owned by | Amtrak | ||||||||
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| Passengers (2006) | 561,505  3% |
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The Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport Rail Station is an Amtrak and MARC commuter rail train station in Linthicum, Maryland. It 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.
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 10-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:
The station's small station building, which houses a ticketing desk, waiting room, and small concessions area, is dwarfed by the adjacent parking garage, filled by the many local commuters who ride the rails to work in Baltimore or Washington. The massive garage was built in the late 1990s to replace a smaller surface lot and is rarely filled.[citation needed]
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Amtrak is nearing completion on the station's first major renovation project, started in 2006, to rebuild the 1,050 ft southbound platform. The existing high-level platform structure was completely replaced with new precast concrete segments, and new signs, lights, shelters, railing, canopies, and benches were installed.
A project to rebuild the northbound platform with identical facilities is in the design phase; construction will commence as funds become available.[1]
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- There are usually—if not always—taxis queued at the station to meet arriving trains.
- The station is indirectly connected—via the aforementioned airport shuttle bus—to Baltimore Light Rail, for which there is a stop (BWI Airport Light Rail Stop) at the airport terminal.
- MTA bus route 17 serves the station; it goes to Arundel Mills in one direction and the Patapsco Baltimore Light Rail station in the other.
- The BWI Trail, a hiker/biker trail, runs by the station.
- BWI Rail Station is at coordinates Coordinates:
- ^ Carson, Larry. "Train station leaves commuters in the rain", The Baltimore Sun, 2006-11-28.
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Terminus
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Acela Express |
toward Boston South
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toward Newport News
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Regional |
toward Boston South or Springfield
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toward Washington
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Vermonter |
toward St. Albans
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| Preceding station | MARC | Following station | ||
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toward Washington
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Penn Line |
toward Perryville
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Categories: All articles with unsourced statements | Articles with unsourced statements since November 2007 | Anne Arundel County, Maryland | Amtrak stations in Maryland | Transportation in Baltimore | Stations along Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad lines | Airport rail links | Railway stations opened in 1980