Perryville station
MARC commuter rail station | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Perryville station on June 9, 2009. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location |
650 Broad Street Perryville, MD 21903[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 39°33′30″N 76°04′18″W / 39.5583°N 76.0717°WCoordinates: 39°33′30″N 76°04′18″W / 39.5583°N 76.0717°W | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Owned by | Amtrak | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Line(s) | Northeast Corridor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Platforms | 1 side platform | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tracks | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Connections |
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Construction | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Parking | 135 spaces[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
History | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Opened | 1905(PW&B) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rebuilt | 1992 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Traffic | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Passengers (2017) |
159[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Services | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Perryville is a passenger rail station in Perryville, Maryland, served by MARC's Penn Line. The station is located on the southern part of the Northeast Corridor, between the Newark, DE and Aberdeen, MD stations. Although Amtrak does not regularly serve the station, a single Amtrak train—Northeast Regional No. 151—stops at Perryville to board MARC ticket holders traveling south.[3] The station is also the northernmost in the MARC system and the terminus for the Penn Line.[4]
History
The Perryville station was originally built by the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad in 1905 and adopted by the Pennsylvania Railroad, and is located within a wye for the PW&B's Port Deposit Branch. When Amtrak took over passenger service in 1971, the station was closed but later in the decade became a stop for the Chesapeake between Washington D.C., and Philadelphia, until it was acquired by MARC.[5] The station was remodeled to its original specifications in 1992,[6] and is located near an Amtrak maintenance facility.
The station also contains the Perryville Railroad Museum, open on Sunday afternoons, which includes a model train layout and exhibits about the history of railroads in Perryville.
Station layout
P Platform level |
Side platform, doors will open on the right | |
Southbound | ← Penn Line toward Washington, D.C. (Aberdeen) Penn Line termination track → ← Amtrak services do not stop here | |
Southbound | ← Amtrak services do not stop here | |
Northbound | Amtrak services do not stop here → | |
Northbound | Amtrak services do not stop here → | |
G | Street level | Exit/entrance and parking |
References
- 1 2 "MARC Station Information". MARC. Retrieved June 5, 2018.
- ↑ "MARC Riders Advisory Council Meeting Minutes: May 18, 2017" (PDF). MARC. May 18, 2017. Retrieved June 11, 2018.
- ↑ "Amtrak/VRE Cross Honoring". MARC. Retrieved June 5, 2018.
- ↑ "MARC System Map" (PDF). MARC. Retrieved June 5, 2018.
- ↑ "1979 Amtrak Chesapeake timetable".
- ↑ "Awards". John E. Day Associates Inc. Archived from the original on November 20, 2008.