Culpeper station

Culpeper station is a train station in Culpeper, Virginia. It was originally built by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad in 1904, replacing an 1874 station house which itself replaced two stations originally built by the Orange and Alexandria Railroad. It is currently served by Amtrak's Cardinal and Crescent routes, along with two daily Northeast Regional trains to and from Lynchburg.[2]

Culpeper, VA
Location109 South Commerce Street
Culpeper, Virginia
United States
Coordinates38°28′20″N 77°59′36″W
Line(s)NS Washington District
Platforms1 side platform
Tracks2
Construction
Disabled accessYes
Other information
Station codeCLP
Traffic
Passengers (FY2018)14,509 annually[1]  6.82% (Amtrak)
Services
Preceding station Amtrak Following station
Charlottesville
toward Chicago
 Cardinal Manassas
toward New York
Charlottesville
toward New Orleans
 Crescent
Charlottesville
toward Roanoke
 Northeast Regional Manassas
toward Boston South or Springfield

When then-owner Norfolk Southern Railway tried to demolish a portion of the depot in 1985, a citizens' committee formed to save the building. In 1995, the town successfully prepared a $700,000 renovation grant under the Virginia Department of Transportation Enhancement Program. Three years later, Norfolk Southern sold the depot to the town, and in 2000 the renovated building opened to the public. Additional work to the freight section was completed in 2003.[3]

References
  1. "Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2018, Commonwealth of Virginia" (PDF). Amtrak. 2018.
  2. "Amtrak Virginia announces new Northeast Regional service".
  3. "Culpeper, VA station". Great American Stations. Retrieved 10 October 2014.


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