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Petersburg, VA
Petersburg station building
General information
Location	3516 South Street Ettrick, Virginia United States
Coordinates	37°14′31″N 77°25′43″W / 37.2419°N 77.4287°W / 37.2419; -77.4287
Owned by	CSX Transportation
Operated by	Amtrak
Platforms	1 island and 1 side platform
Tracks	2
Construction
Parking	Yes; free
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Station code	Amtrak: PTB
History
Opened	1955
Passengers
FY 2023	46,274 (Amtrak)
Services
Preceding station Amtrak Following station NorfolkTerminus Northeast Regional Richmond Staples Mill Roadtoward Boston South or Springfield Rocky Mounttoward Charlotte Carolinian Richmond Staples Mill Roadtoward New York Rocky Mounttoward Savannah Palmetto Rocky Mounttoward Miami Silver Meteor Silver Star
Former services Preceding station Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Following station Carsontoward Tampa Main Line Chestertoward Richmond

Petersburg station (Ettrick Station) is an Amtrak railroad station located at 3516 South Street in Ettrick, Virginia just outside the city of Petersburg. However, like most of Ettrick, it has a Petersburg address. The station was built in 1955 by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (ACL) and is near Virginia State University and Rogers Stadium.

In the 2010s a replacement station was proposed in Colonial Heights to serve the Tri-Cities of Petersburg, Colonial Heights, and Hopewell. Those plans were shelved as of July 2019. The Commonwealth Transportation Board reported that $5.7 million had been secured for modernizing the station including replacement of the passenger platform and connecting ramps, as well as improving the parking lot, access road, and signs on Interstate 95. In 2019 bus service began to the multi-modal station in downtown Petersburg, with a park-and-ride lot under construction. Petersburg's role as a passenger rail transfer station would grow under the Southeast High Speed Rail Corridor project, which includes high-speed service to both Norfolk, Virginia, and Raleigh, North Carolina. A shorter route to Raleigh is in the works, with the acquisition of CSX abandoned right-of-way and underused trackage.

In the 1970s Amtrak also served Union Station in Petersburg until Mountaineer service east-west across Virginia ended in 1977.

References

1. "Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2023: Commonwealth of Virginia" (PDF). Amtrak. March 2024. Retrieved June 30, 2024.
2. Buettner, Michael (17 May 2017). "Feds propose moving Amtrak station out of Ettrick". The Progress-Index. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
3. Atkinson, Bill (6 July 2019). "Ettrick's Amtrak future appears back on track". Virginian-Pilot. The (Petersburg) Progress-Index. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
4. "Petersburg expands bus service to train station".
5. "Petersburg, VA".
6. https://railroads.dot.gov/sites/fra.dot.gov/files/fra_net/15274/SEHSR-R2R-Signed_FEIS.pdf
7. "NCDOT to buy CSX rail line between Raleigh and Ridgeway | Raleigh News & Observer". Archived from the original on 2020-09-19.

External links

Media related to Petersburg station at Wikimedia Commons

• Petersburg, VA – Amtrak
• Petersburg, VA – Station history at Great American Stations (Amtrak)
• Great American Stations (Amtrak)
• Petersburg Amtrak Station (USA Rail Guide - Train Web)

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