Aberdeen station is a train station in

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, on the

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. It is served by

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'' intercity service and

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commuter service. The station has two

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s serving the outer tracks of the three-track Northeast Corridor, with a station building on the north side of the tracks.

History

Aberdeen Station, Pennsylvania Railroad, Aberdeen, Maryland

The station was originally built by the

Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad The Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad (PW&B) was an American railroad that operated independently from 1836 to 1881. It was formed in 1836 by the merger of four state-chartered railroads in three Middle Atlantic states to create a ...

approximately in 1898, and inherited by the

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. The current station is a modern structure built in 1943 by Lester C. Tichy (1905–1981) for the

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, It contains a 1960s-style pedestrian tunnel, with one of the entrances located at the former north station house. It also contains a pedestrian bridge built in 1982. Aberdeen was also served by an 1886-built

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station along what is now the

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just north of this one on West Bel Air Avenue.Existing railway stations in Harford County, Maryland
/ref> Prior to the mid-1980s there was a

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located next to the station. It was removed after Amtrak completed the Northeast Corridor Improvement Project and replaced with an overpass.

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{{MARC Train Amtrak stations in Maryland Stations on the Northeast Corridor MARC Train stations Penn Line Transportation buildings and structures in Harford County, Maryland Aberdeen, Maryland Railway stations in the United States opened in 1898 1898 establishments in Maryland Former Pennsylvania Railroad stations