Elizabethtown station
Elizabethtown, PA | ||||||||||||||||
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 Elizabethtown station | ||||||||||||||||
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| Location | 50 South Wilson Avenue Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania United States | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°8′48.8″N 76°36′44″W / 40.146889°N 76.61222°W | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Amtrak | |||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Amtrak Keystone Corridor (Philadelphia to Harrisburg Main Line) | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Connections |  Red Rose Transit Authority: 18 | |||||||||||||||
| Construction | ||||||||||||||||
| Parking | 49 short-term, 90 long-term | |||||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Racks | |||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | |||||||||||||||
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| Station code | Amtrak: ELT | |||||||||||||||
| History | ||||||||||||||||
| Opened | 1915 | |||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | August 2009–May 2011 | |||||||||||||||
| Electrified | January 15, 1938[1] | |||||||||||||||
| Passengers | ||||||||||||||||
| FY 2022 | 39,359[2] (Amtrak) | |||||||||||||||
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Elizabethtown station is an
title to the building was transferred to the borough of Elizabethtown in 1998, and it was leased back to Amtrak. From 2009 to 2011, the station underwent a 21-month renovation to make it handicapped-accessible
.
Services and facilities
The Elizabethtown station is located on South Wilson Avenue, off of
New York Penn Station, and seven from each on weekends.[4] The Pennsylvanian arrives once daily from both New York and Pittsburgh Union Station.[4] The station is 18 miles (29 km) east of Harrisburg, 86 miles (138 km) west of 30th Street Station in Philadelphia, and 179 miles (288 km) from New York.[4] The station was the 7th busiest in Pennsylvania with an annual ridership of 22,232 passengers in fiscal year 2021, a decrease of 52.2 percent from the previous year.[5][6]
The station is equipped with Amtrak's Quik-Trak ticket machines, public restrooms, information kiosks, and wireless internet.[3] As the Elizabethtown station is unstaffed, all tickets from the station need to be pre-paid, purchased from Quik-Trak, or from a conductor on board the train.[7] Parking is in a 45-vehicle lot located in front of the station and a 100-vehicle "overflow lot [located] down the street."[3] The Red Rose Transit Authority's Route 18 transit bus provides service between the station, Elizabethtown, Mount Joy, and Lancaster.[8]
Elizabethtown College's campus security drives students to the train station.[9]
History
Platforms in April 2009
Platforms in May 2011
Because of the construction of an
Renovations
In August 1998, the station building was leased to Amtrak for 99 years by the
ribbon-cutting ceremony on May 4, 2011.[3]
See also
Pennsylvania portal
Trains portal- List of Amtrak stations
- Transportation in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
References
- ^ "Pennsy Completes New Electric Link". The Wilkes-Barre Times Leader. January 15, 1938. p. 1. Retrieved August 22, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2022: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania" (PDF). Amtrak. June 2023. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
- ^ Lancaster New Era. Retrieved September 7, 2015.
- ^ a b c "Keystone Service" (PDF). Amtrak. April 6, 2015. Retrieved September 7, 2015.
- ^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2020, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania" (PDF). Amtrak. July 2022. Retrieved October 4, 2022.
- ^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2021, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania" (PDF). Amtrak. August 2022. Retrieved October 4, 2022.
- ^ "Elizabethtown, PA (ELT)". Stations. Amtrak. Retrieved May 4, 2011.
- ^ "Route 18 Mount Joy / Elizabethtown" (PDF). Red Rose Transit Authority. August 24, 2015. Retrieved September 7, 2015.
- ^ "Our Services - Elizabethtown College".
- ^ MacMaster 1999, p. 157.
- ^ MacMaster 1999, p. 182.
- ^ MacMaster 1999, p. 184.
- ^ Bezilla (1980), p. 159.
- ^ MacMaster 1999, p. 282.
- ^ Amtrak National Train Timetables. Amtrak. April 26, 1981. pp. 22–23.
- ^ Amtrak System Train Timetables. Amtrak. April 7 – October 26, 1991. p. 29.
- ^ Amtrak Northeast Timetable. Amtrak. October 30, 1994. p. 27.
- ^ Amtrak National Timetable. Amtrak. October 29, 1995. p. 18.
- ^ Amtrak National Timetable. Amtrak. April 14, 1996. p. 15.
- ^ MacMaster 1999, p. 298.
- ^ Coburn, Tom (June 2009). "100 Stimulus Projects: A Second Opinion". United States Senate. pp. 14–15. Archived from the original on April 23, 2011. Retrieved May 6, 2011.
Sources
- Bezilla, Michael (1980). Electric Traction on the Pennsylvania Railroad, 1895–1968. OCLC 5336721.
- MacMaster, Richard K (1999). Elizabethtown: the first three centuries. ISBN 1-883294-91-6.
External links
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