Wilmington Station

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Wilmington Amtrak station SEPTA Regional Rail commuter station
File:WilmingtonDE Station.jpg
Station statistics
Address	100 South French Street Wilmington, DE 19801
Coordinates	39°44′12″N 75°33′04″W / 39.736696°N 75.551026°W / 39.736696; -75.551026Coordinates: 39°44′12″N 75°33′04″W / 39.736696°N 75.551026°W / 39.736696; -75.551026
Lines	Amtrak:     Acela Express      Cardinal and Hoosier State      Carolinian      Crescent      Palmetto      Silver Meteor      Silver Star      Northeast Regional      Vermonter SEPTA:     R2
Connections	Thruway Motorcoach DART First State bus routes
Baggage check	Available for Carolinian, Crescent, Palmetto, Silver Meteor and Silver Star services
Other information
Opened	1908
Accessible
Code	WIL
Fare zone	4 (SEPTA Only)
Formerly	French Street
Traffic
Passengers (2009)	664,429 ▼ 9%
Services
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station Baltimore toward Washington, D.C. Acela Express Philadelphia toward Boston South Station Baltimore toward Chicago Cardinal Philadelphia toward New York Baltimore toward Charlotte Carolinian Baltimore toward New Orleans Crescent Baltimore toward Savannah Palmetto Newark, DE toward Newport News or Lynchburg Northeast Regional Philadelphia toward Boston South Station or Springfield, MA Baltimore toward Miami Silver Meteor Philadelphia toward New York Silver Star Baltimore toward Washington, D.C. Vermonter Philadelphia toward St. Albans Preceding station   SEPTA   Following station Churchmans Crossing toward Newark R2 Claymont toward Warminster

Wilmington Amtrak Station(a.k.a. Wilmington Station; French Street Station)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
1970's image of French Street Station in Wilmington
Map of Delaware
Location:	100 South French Street Wilmington, DE, USA
Coordinates:	39°44′12″N 75°33′04″W / 39.736696°N 75.551026°W / 39.736696; -75.551026Coordinates: 39°44′12″N 75°33′04″W / 39.736696°N 75.551026°W / 39.736696; -75.551026
Built/Founded:	1908
Architect:	Frank Furness
Added to NRHP:	1976
NRHP Reference#:	76000581

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Wilmington Train Station is a passenger rail station in Wilmington, Delaware, formerly known as Pennsylvania Station. The station is located on Front Street between French and Walnut Streets in downtown Wilmington. It has one inside level which has stores, a cafe, Amtrak and SEPTA ticket offices, a car rental office, and a post office; passengers board their trains on the second story train platforms. It is served by Amtrak trains along the Northeast Corridor going south to Baltimore and Washington, D.C., and going north to Philadelphia and New York, the Silver Star and the Silver Meteor to Florida, and the Cardinal to Chicago. Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach service is provided through the station to Dover and Seaford, Delaware, and Salisbury, Maryland. It is also served by SEPTA's R2 Regional Rail Line with service to Philadelphia and Newark, Delaware. Like all stations in Delaware, SEPTA service is provided under contract and funded through DART First State, which also provides extensive local bus service.

Continental Airlines code shares on some Amtrak trains between Wilmington and Newark Liberty International Airport. For this reason, Wilmington Station is assigned the IATA airport code of ZWI.

Contents 1 Architecture 2 DART First State bus connections 3 See also 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Architecture

The station was built in 1908 by the Pennsylvania Railroad, and replaced an earlier station erected by the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad. This station, along with the adjacent Pennsylvania Building (which housed the offices for the Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad) and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad's Water Street freight depot, were designed by renowned architect Frank Furness.

Wilmington Station has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1976.^[1] The National Register added the adjacent railroad viaduct in 1999.^[2]

[edit] DART First State bus connections

DART First State routes:

• #2, #6, #7, #10, #11, #12, #16, #17, #20, #21, #22, #28, #32, #35, #38, #45, #59, #301, and #305 (seasonally)

[edit] See also

• Wilmington and Western Railroad
• List of Delaware railroads
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Wilmington, Delaware

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Friends of Furness Railroad District

• Amtrak - Stations - Wilmington, DE

• Ridership figures, FY 2008
• Ridership figures, FY 2009

• SEPTA station page for Wilmington
• Wilmington Amtrak & SEPTA Station (USA RailGuide -- TrainWeb)
• NRHP Station Listing with Photos
• NRHP Viaduct Listing with Photos

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