Charlottesville Union Station

Charlottesville
Location	810 West Main Street Charlottesville, VA
Coordinates
Owned by	Union Station Partners LLC
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	4
Construction
Parking	10 short-term and 165 long-term parking spaces available
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Station code	CVS
History
Opened	1885
Rebuilt	1915, Mid-1990s
Traffic
Passengers (FY2014)	132,410 annually  0.98% (Amtrak)
Services
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station Staunton toward Chicago Cardinal Culpeper toward New York City Lynchburg toward New Orleans Crescent Lynchburg Terminus Northeast Regional Culpeper toward Boston South Station or Springfield   Proposed service   Preceding station   Transdominion Express   Following station Lynchburg toward Bristol Washington-Bristol Line Orange toward Washington, D.C.

The Charlottesville Union Station, located in Charlottesville, Virginia, the county seat of Albemarle County, is served by Amtrak's Cardinal, Crescent, and daily Northeast Regional passenger trains. The east-west line is owned by CSX Transportation and the north-south line by Norfolk Southern Railway. The station is within walking distance of the University of Virginia, which is the major employer in the area.

History

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.

Since 1999, the former baggage handling facility is home to the Amtrak ticket office and waiting area. The main facility has been privately developed into a commercial restaurant. 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.

However, the station does serve as an intermodal transportation nexus, with connecting Thruway motorcoach service to Richmond (operated by James River Transportation) on site, a 200+ space parking lot, and access to a full-service Greyhound Lines bus station down the street. Such services allow Charlottesville travelers to reach various airports in the region. The Charlottesville Free Trolley stops just north of the station, and connects Downtown and the University of Virginia.

Out of the twenty Virginia stations, Charlottesville is the fourth busiest in the state according to the FY2013 ridership.

Routes

• Cardinal
• Crescent
• Northeast Regional

External links

• Media related to at Wikimedia Commons

• Amtrak – Stations – Charlottesville, VA
• Charlottesville (CVS) Great American Stations (Amtrak)
• Charlottesville Amtrak Station (USA RailGuide -- TrainWeb)