Bowie State station

Bowie State
MARC commuter rail station
General information
Location	13900 Old Jericho Park Road Bowie, MD 20715
Coordinates	39°01′04″N 76°45′53″W
Owned by	Amtrak
Line(s)	Penn Line
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	3
Construction
Parking	Yes
Accessible	Yes
History
Opened	1989
Passengers
2013	801 (MARC)
Services
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Bowie State is a passenger rail station on the MARC Penn Line between Washington, D.C., Baltimore, MD and Perryville, MD. This station is also on the southern section of the Northeast Corridor; however Amtrak does not stop at this station. The station adjoins Bowie State University, hence the name.

Bowie State Station was built in 1989 as a replacement for the original Bowie Station built by the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company, and acquired by the Pennsylvania Railroad, located 1.1 miles south of modern Bowie State. Not many years before, a station named Jericho Park was located on the same site as Bowie State, but it was discontinued by the early 1980s when the (Old) Jericho Park Road grade crossing was eliminated by the Laurel-Bowie Road overpass, before the MARC name was coined. In 1992, the former Bowie station was purchased by the City of Bowie, and transformed into the Huntington Railroad Museum.

External links

Media related to Bowie State (MARC) at Wikimedia Commons

• Bowie State station official website
• Station from Google Maps Street View