Thanks to cooperation among Amtrak, the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transporation (VDRPT), and the Virginia Railway Express (VRE), the Burke Centre VRE Station will officially also become an Amtrak Station on January 18, 2010.
On that day, the new Boston/Springfield to Lynchburg, VA train, which had been stopping only on weekdays (except Holidays), but not weekends, will make its first Holiday stop at Burke Centre.
The following Saturday (Jan 23) and Sunday (Jan 24), the Lynchburg Train would begin stopping on the weekends (Trains 145, 147, and 156).
Now persons in Western Fairfax County, which has one of the highests per capita incomes in the United States, will have the convenience of traveling to and from Washington DC and anywhere that Amtrak and other commuter rail, light rail, and subway services travel.
For example, riders can travel to and from Burke Center daily to Lynchburg, Charlottesville, DC, BWI Airport, National Airport (via subway connection), Dulles Airport (via subway connection to Roslyn and 5A Bus), Baltimore, Wilmington, Philadelpha, New York, New Haven, Hartford, Springfield, Providence, and Boston and many more towns and cities!
I expect the Lynchburg weekend train to be very popular with college students, as well as seniors and business travelers.
In the future, Amtrak may even install a "Quick-Trak" machine for printing off reserved train tickets.
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