Baltimore City Guide - Getting There By Rail

Penn Station, 1500 North Charles Street (tel: (410) 291 4261), is located in the Mount Vernon district. Both the local provider, Maryland Area Rail Commuter (MARC) (tel: 1 866 743 3682; website: www.mtamaryland.com), and the national provider, Amtrak (tel: 1 800 872 7245; website: www.amtrak.com), use this station. Facilities at Penn station include restaurants, ATMs, a postal vending machine, waiting room, baggage checking, porter service, full disabled access and car hire. The standard of service on both MARC and Amtrak is good, with modern networks and comfortable conditions. There is no integrated national enquiries hotline. Travellers with enquiries should contact the separate service providers or the relevant route/destination station.

Rail services: Baltimore is situated along the northeastern Amtrak corridor, which goes from Washington, DC to Boston via Philadelphia and New York. Other destinations are Orlando (journey time – 20 hours) and Miami (journey time – 24 hours) in Florida, New Orleans (journey time – 38 hours) in Louisiana and Raleigh (journey time – 7 hours) in North Carolina. MARC trains head north to Perryville and south to Washington DC (journey time – 35 minutes), from where there are MARC connections on the Brunswick line to destinations in West Virginia (journey time – 1 hour 20 minutes).