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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. 111—stops at Perryville to board MARC ticket holders traveling south.[5] The station is also the northernmost in the MARC system and the terminus for the Penn Line.[6]

Perryville
MARC commuter rail station
Perryville station on June 9, 2009.
General information
Location	650 Broad Street, Perryville, Maryland[1]
Coordinates	39.5583°N 76.0717°W / 39.5583; -76.0717
Owned by	Amtrak
Line(s)	Northeast Corridor
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	4
Connections	Cecil Transit: 2
Construction
Parking	135 spaces[1]
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	1905 (PW&B)
Rebuilt	1992
Electrified	January 28, 1935[2] (ceremonial) February 10, 1935[3] (regular service)
Passengers
2018	128 daily[4]  26.4% (MARC)
Services
Preceding station MARC Following station Aberdeen towards Union Station Penn Line Terminus
Former services Preceding station Amtrak Following station Aberdeen toward Washington, D.C. Chesapeake Elkton toward Philadelphia–Suburban Preceding station Pennsylvania Railroad Following station Havre-de-Grace toward Washington, DC Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Principio toward Philadelphia

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.[7] The station was remodeled to its original specifications in 1992,[8] 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

The station has a single side platform north of the tracks.

P Platform level	Street level	Exit/entrance, station house, parking, buses
	Side platform
	Track 4	←      Penn Line toward Union Station (Aberdeen) →      Penn Line termination track → ←      Amtrak services do not stop here
	Track 3	←      Amtrak services do not stop here
	Track 2	←      Amtrak services do not stop here →
	Track 1	←      Amtrak services do not stop here →

Future expansion

In 2017, the Wilmington Area Planning Council submitted ridership studies to Cecil County, the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, SEPTA and the Delaware Department of Transportation for the extension of MARC service from Perryville via Elkton[9] to Newark, Delaware, and possibly Wilmington.[10] The section from Perryville to Newark is the one of only three along the Northeast Corridor not covered by commuter train service (the others are between New London, Connecticut, and Wickford Junction, Rhode Island as well as New York Penn Station and New Rochelle, New York). The Route 5 bus operated by Cecil Transit formerly connected the two stations.[11]

References

External links

• Media related to Perryville (MARC station) at Wikimedia Commons
• Perryville Official Site, with slight info on Perryville Railroad Station & Museum
• Image from Maryland Route 7 (AARoads.com)
• Perryville Station and vicinity (RailPictures.net)

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