Fredericksburg station is a passenger rail station in

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. It is served by

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's '' Carolinian'', ''

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'', and ''

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'' trains, and the

Virginia Railway Express Virginia Railway Express (VRE) is a commuter rail service that connects outlying small cities of Northern Virginia to Union Station in Washington, D.C. It operates two lines which run during weekday rush hour only: the Fredericksburg Line from ...

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. (Amtrak's ''

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'' services pass through the station without stopping.) It is located on Lafayette Boulevard ( U.S. Route 1 Business). The station has two

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s serving the two tracks of the

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History

The Fredericksburg station was originally built in 1910 by the

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, as a replacement for an older ground level station house. The RF&P arrived in Fredericksburg as far back as January 1837. A former Virginia Central Railway Depot can be found on adjacent tracks two blocks to the west on the southwest corner of Lafayette Boulevard and Charles Street. The RF&P's passenger service was taken over by Amtrak in 1971. and commuter service was re-introduced by

in 1992 when the station became the southern terminus of the Fredericksburg Line. Since 1997, the station house was occupied by Claiborne's restaurant, until it was replaced in 2010 by the Bavarian Chef Restaurant. The station underwent a major restoration project between 2010 and 2011. The line was extended to a new terminus at

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in November 2015 with the hopes of easing the parking crunch at Fredericksburg. In June 2017, the VRE board approved a $431,000 to repair the western sections of platform, with plans to add an additional stair tower. Further in the future, plans for the

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call for a third track and an expanded station slightly to the east.

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Fredericksburg Train Station – VRE
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