Charlottesville Union Station
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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 Northeast Regional | |||||||||||||||||||
| Parking | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1885 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1915, Mid-1990s | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Code | CVS | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Passengers (FY2009) | 52,546 ▼ 1% (Amtrak) | |||||||||||||||||||
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The Charlottesville Union Station, located in Charlottesville, Virginia, is served by Amtrak's Cardinal, Crescent, and Northeast Regional 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 down the street.
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[edit] Gallery
 A westbound Cardinal at Charlottesville in 2008. A GE Genesis is leading three Amfleet coaches, an Amfleet cafe, and a Viewliner sleeper. |
 Train interior view of either passengers or visitors wait in the parking lot at the station. |
[edit] References
- ^ Charlottesville Tomorrow, Transportation Matrix. Retrieved November 2, 2007.
- ^ "Amtrak Virginia announces new Northeast Regional service". http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=Amtrak/am2Copy/News_Release_Page&c=am2Copy&cid=1189639711179&ssid=180.
[edit] External links
- Charlottesville (CVS) Great American Stations (Amtrak)
- Charlottesville Amtrak Station (USA RailGuide -- TrainWeb)
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