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Baltimore Penn Station—formally, Baltimore Pennsylvania Station—is the main inter-city passenger rail hub in Baltimore, Maryland. Designed by New York City architect Kenneth MacKenzie Murchison (1872–1938), it was constructed in 1911 in the Beaux-Arts style of architecture for the Pennsylvania Railroad .
The station opened in 1997, with trains then serving the station every 34 minutes and operating to Penn Station. The system's routes and schedules have varied over the years; as of 2023 [update] , trains depart for Hunt Valley every twenty minutes during peak commuter hours and every half-hour at other times.
The Baltimore Light RailLink network consists of a main north-south line that serves 28 of the system's 33 stops; a spur in Baltimore city that connects a single stop (Penn Station) to the main line; and two branches at the south end of the line that serve two stops apiece. Because of the track arrangement, trains can enter the Penn Station ...
The non-motorized companion to the Airport Loop is the BWI Trail, a 13.3-mile (21.4 km) [3] hiking and bicycling trail that completely encircles BWI Airport. Also constructed by MDSHA and designed for area commuters, the first 4.4-mile (7.1 km) section of the trail opened in July 1994 and the main loop was eventually completed in 1999.
In the 2015 South Baltimore Gateway Masterplan, the city of Baltimore proposed a new light rail stop along the Central Light RailLink line at Stockholm Street, in between Hamburg Street and Westport. The new station would be located near a proposed new MARC station west of Russell Street, [29] and would provide additional access to the ...
Although Penn Station is the Baltimore area's main intercity station, BWI Airport is a major station in its own right. It is Amtrak's sixth-busiest station in the Mid-Atlantic region (behind New York Penn , Washington , Philadelphia , Baltimore Penn, and Albany-Rensselaer ), the third-busiest in the Baltimore-Washington corridor, and the 12th ...
As originally envisioned by the plan, the Yellow Line would conjoin with the existing Baltimore Light RailLink at BWI Business District station, and remain connected until Camden Yards station, where the two lines would spur to create a loop around Downtown Baltimore. In this small loop, the lines would both serve the Inner Harbor, Charles ...
The BWI Marshall Airport Shuttle is a free bus service provided by Baltimore–Washington International Airport, that connects the airport terminal to BWI Rail Station.The free shuttle connects airport passengers to Amtrak and MARC trains, hence connecting the airport to Baltimore and Washington, D.C., as well as the rest of the Northeastern United States.