Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2014
Commonwealth of Virginia
Amtrak-Virginia partnership
State grants support daily service from Washington to Lynchburg as an extension
of Amtrak’s Northeast Regional service
  State grants also support Northeast Regional services south from Washington to
Richmond, Newport News, and Norfolk
  Over 251,000 Virginia residents are members of the Amtrak Guest Rewards
frequent user program
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Amtrak Service & Ridership
Amtrak operates over 20 trains daily in Virginia. These include the Amtrak Virginia Regional service to
Lynchburg, Richmond, Newport News, and Norfolk as well as the following long-distance trains:
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The Auto Train (daily Lorton, Va.- Sanford, Fla.)
The Cardinal (tri-weekly New York-Washington, DC-Charlottesville-Cincinnati-Chicago)
The Crescent (daily New York-Charlottesville-Atlanta-New Orleans)
The Palmetto (daily New York-Richmond-Savannah)
The Silver Meteor (daily New York-Richmond-Miami)
The Silver Star (daily New York-Richmond-Tampa-Miami)
Amtrak also operates one shorter-distance train through Virginia, the Carolinian (daily New YorkRichmond-Charlotte).
During FY14 Amtrak served the following Virginia locations:
City
Alexandria
Ashland
Burke Centre
Charlottesville
Clifton Forge
Culpeper
Danville
Fredericksburg
Lorton (Auto Train)
Lynchburg
Manassas
Boardings + Alightings
180,409
27,977
5,535
132,410
2,432
14,257
7,741
111,999
274,445
86,302
29,104
Amtrak Government Affairs: November 2014
Newport News
Norfolk
Petersburg
Quantico
Richmond - Main Street
Richmond - Staples Mill
Staunton
Williamsburg
Woodbridge
Total Virginia Station Usage:
112,661
41,843
29,383
36,976
40,834
358,615
6,823
61,074
29,418
1,590,238
(down 1.1% from FY13)
Additionally, Amtrak estimates that well over one million of the 5 million Amtrak passengers using
Washington Union Station reside in Northern Virginia.
Procurement/Contracts
Amtrak spent $119,258,616 on goods and services in Virginia in FY14. Most of this was in the following
locations:
City
Alexandria
Burke
Chantilly
Chesapeake
Fairfax
Herndon
McLean
Oakton
Reston
Virginia Beach
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2,364,097
7,626,293
3,422,179
2,956,425
9,174,826
6,029,038
27,625,967
25,264,705
19,779,286
2,841,213
Employment
At the end of FY14, Amtrak employed 852 Virginia residents. Total wages of Amtrak employees living
in Virginia were $77,156,249 during FY14.
PRIIA Section 209 and State-Assisted Services
The Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008 (P.L. 110-432) required, by October 2013,
an equitable arrangement of cost sharing between Amtrak and state or public agency partners that provide
funding for short-distance, intercity train services. During the 2013 regular session of the Virginia
General Assembly, the previously authorized Intercity Passenger Rail Operating and Capital Fund
(IPROC) was funded with a dedicated mechanism through legislation that called for restructuring the
existing state sales tax. This fund is used by the Department of Rail and Public Transportation to support
both the operation of the Amtrak Virginia services and qualifying intrastate capital needs for rail
infrastructure. The IPROC legislation is the first known dedicated funding source to be created by a state
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to support intercity passenger rail operations and capital projects. Subsequently, agreements were
reached with all parties, including Virginia, by the 2013 deadline, and the services continued to run
without interruption.
State Partnerships
On December 12, 2012, Amtrak and the DRPT inaugurated service to Petersburg and Norfolk from
Washington and Richmond. This new daily service brought Amtrak service back to Norfolk for the first
time since 1977.
On January 9, 2014, then-Governor Bob McDonnell announced plans to bring Amtrak service to
Roanoke. Capital improvements have to be made to the Norfolk Southern route from Lynchburg and a
new facility is needed in Roanoke. Plans call for the service to begin sometime in 2016.
Station/Facility Improvements
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Clifton Forge: Amtrak has endorsed a plan by the Town of Clifton Forge and the Chesapeake &
Ohio Historical Society to move the station to a newly constructed C&O replica station located
on the Society’s museum grounds. When complete, it will be outfitted with an ADA accessible
waiting room, restrooms and a new platform. The current station is in a CSX building in a yard
area.
Norfolk: During 2013, the City built a new, $3.75-million station next to the platform that had
been served by Northeast Regional trains and Newport News-Virginia Beach Thruway buses
since December 2012. The station opened on December 2, 2013. The site is on the east edge of
downtown, adjacent to a light rail stop and the ballpark.
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--Amtrak Government Affairs, fall 2012
Chincoteague