Perryville is a passenger rail station in

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, served by

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. The station is located on the southern part of the

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, between the

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and Aberdeen, MD stations. Although Amtrak does not regularly serve the station, a single Amtrak train—''

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'' 111—stops at Perryville to board MARC ticket holders traveling south. The station is also the northernmost in the

system and the terminus for the Penn Line.

History

Metroliner at Perryville station, October 1979

The Perryville station was originally built by the

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in 1905 and adopted by the

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, and is located within a wye for the PW&B's Port Deposit Branch. When Amtrak took over passenger service in 1971, the station was closed but later in the decade became a stop for the ''

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'' between Washington D.C., and Philadelphia, until it was acquired by MARC. The station was remodeled to its original specifications in 1992, and is located near an Amtrak maintenance facility. The station also contains the Perryville Railroad Museum, open on Sunday afternoons, which includes a model train layout and exhibits about the history of railroads in Perryville.

Station layout

The station has a single

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north of the tracks.

Future expansion

In 2017, the Wilmington Area Planning Council submitted ridership studies to

Cecil County Cecil County () is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland at the northeastern corner of the state, bordering both Pennsylvania and Delaware. As of the 2020 census, the population was 103,725. The county seat is Elkton. The county was ...

, the

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and the

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for the extension of MARC service from Perryville via Elkton to

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, and possibly Wilmington. The section from Perryville to Newark is the one of only three along the

not covered by commuter train service (the others are between

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, and Wickford Junction, Rhode Island as well as

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and

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). The Route 5 bus operated by

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formerly connected the two stations.

References

External links

*
Perryville Official Site, with slight info on Perryville Railroad Station & Museum

Image from Maryland Route 7 (AARoads.com)

Perryville Station and vicinity (RailPictures.net)
{{authority control Stations on the Northeast Corridor MARC Train stations Former Amtrak stations in Maryland Penn Line Perryville, Maryland Railroad museums in Maryland Railway stations in the United States opened in 1905 Transportation buildings and structures in Cecil County, Maryland Former Pennsylvania Railroad stations