Charlottesville Union Station
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| Charlottesville | |||||||||||||||
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| Address | 810 West Main Street Charlottesville, VA |
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| Coordinates | 38°1′53″N 78°29′31.6″W / 38.03139°N 78.492111°WCoordinates: 38°1′53″N 78°29′31.6″W / 38.03139°N 78.492111°W | ||||||||||||||
| Lines | Cardinal Crescent | ||||||||||||||
| Parking | Yes | ||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1885 | ||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1915, Mid-1990s | ||||||||||||||
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| Code | CVS | ||||||||||||||
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| Passengers (FY2008) | 53,038 ▲ 10% (Amtrak) | ||||||||||||||
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The Charlottesville Union Station, located in Charlottesville, Virginia, is served by Amtrak's Cardinal and Crescent passenger trains.
The original Union Station was built in 1885 to jointly serve the Charlottesville and Rapidan Railroad, the Virginia Midland Railway, and the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. Major renovations in 1915 included the construction of a baggage handling facility, which serves as the Amtrak ticket office and waiting area since 1999. Currently, the station also serves passengers along the Buckingham Branch Railroad and the Norfolk Southern Railway. The main facility has been privately developed since that time for commercial use. Plans coincident with the redevelopment to create a transportation hub at Union Station were not realized. Instead in 2007 Charlottesville completed the Downtown Transit Center one mile across town.[1]
Greyhound Lines provides limited service to the Charlottesville Amtrak station. Greyhound has a full service bus station nearby.
[edit] Routes
- Cardinal
- Crescent
- Starting in October Amtrak will run an additional train to/from Washington DC. It is expected that this train is going to be an extension of a Northeast Regional Train.
[edit] References
- ^ Charlottesville Tomorrow, Transportation Matrix. Retrieved November 2, 2007.
[edit] External links
- Charlottesville (CVS) Great American Stations (Amtrak)
- Charlottesville Amtrak Station (USA RailGuide -- TrainWeb)
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