BWI Rail Station

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Baltimore/Washington International (BWI) Thurgood Marshall Airport Rail Station
Station statistics
Address	7 Amtrak Way BWI Airport, MD 21240
Lines	Acela Express - Regional - Vermonter
Other service	MARC Penn Line
Other information
Code	BWI
Owned by	Amtrak
Traffic
Passengers (2006)	561,505 3%

The Baltimore/Washington International (BWI) Thurgood Marshall Airport Rail Station is a Amtrak and MARC (Maryland Area Regional Commuter) 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 (BWI) Thurgood Marshall Airport. Transportation between the rail station and the terminals is via a free shuttle bus, which is a 5–10 minute trip on airport-operated shuttle buses that depart every 10 minutes between 5 AM and 1 AM and every 25 minutes between 1 AM and 5 AM.. The station was dedicated on October 23, 1980, and was the first intercity rail station in the U.S. built to service an airport. The airport is about a 10-minute train ride south of downtown Baltimore Penn Station, a 20-minute ride north of New Carrollton, Maryland (and a interconnection 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:

• Acela Express
• Regional
• Vermonter

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.

[edit] Connecting transportation

Northeast Corridor main stations
Legend Boston South Station Boston Back Bay Route 128 Springfield Providence Hartford New Haven Stamford New York City Newark Metropark Princeton Junction Trenton Philadephia Wilmington Baltimore BWI Airport Washington DC

• 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 station 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.

[edit] External link

• Amtrak - Stations - BWI Rail Station

• Ridership figures, FY 2004
• Ridership figures, FY 2005
• Ridership figures, FY 2006

• Maps and aerial photos Coordinates: 39.192377° -76.694645°
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  • Topographic map from TopoZone
  • Aerial image from TerraServer-USA

Previous station		Amtrak		Next station
Washington Terminus		Acela Express		Baltimore toward Boston South
New Carrollton toward Newport News		Regional		Baltimore toward Boston South or Springfield
New Carrollton toward Washington		Vermonter		Baltimore toward St. Albans
Previous station		MARC		Next station
Odenton toward Washington		Penn Line		Halethorpe toward Perryville