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Silverliner V SEPTA Regional Rail train at Wilmington station. The line north of Wilmington was originally built by the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad.The original alignment was opened January 17, 1838, and on November 18, 1872, a realignment opened north of Chester (part of the old route is now used for the Airport Line).
Built in 1907 as Pennsylvania Station, the station was renamed in 2011 for then-Vice President (now former President) Joe Biden, an advocate for passenger rail who routinely took the train from Wilmington to Washington, D.C. during his time as a Senator from 1973 to 2009. [8]
All trains are operated by East Midlands Railway. The station used to have a PlusBus scheme where combined train and bus tickets could be bought at a reduced price, however it was withdrawn due to low usage owing to the limited rail services. [citation needed] The locality of Netherfield is still part of the Nottingham Plusbus scheme.
Wilmington & Western serves one customer for revenue service, and interchanges with CSX Transportation at Landenberg Junction, Delaware. Wilmington & Western's General Motors Diesel-Electric SW1 locomotive no. 114 is the oldest diesel locomotive in routine scheduled service, having been built in February 1940. [2]
The Delaware Transit Corporation, operating as DART First State, is the only public transportation system that operates throughout the U.S. state of Delaware.DART First State provides local and inter-county bus service throughout the state and also funds commuter rail service along SEPTA Regional Rail's Wilmington/Newark Line serving the northern part of the state.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: [5] [6] 1 tph to Leicester via Nottingham; 1 tph to Crewe via Nottingham and Derby; 1 tph to Lincoln of which 1 tp2h continues to Grimsby Town; The station is also served by two trains per day to and one train per day from London St Pancras International which are operated using a Class 222 ...
The station is unstaffed and has two offset platforms (linked by underpass), with platform 1 (for Chesterfield and Sheffield) the more southerly of the pair. There are no permanent buildings other than standard waiting shelters; there is no ticket machine available, so all tickets must be purchased prior to travel or on the train.
It serves the Wilmington/Newark Line, with southbound service to Wilmington and Newark, Delaware and northbound service to Philadelphia. This station is about 1 ⁄ 2-mile (0.80 km) away from the Sharon Hill terminus of the stop on the Media–Sharon Hill Line Route 102 trolley, although no direct connection exists between the two stations. It ...