Grand Forks station is a train station in western Grand Forks, North Dakota. It is served by Amtrak's Empire Builder line.
Grand Forks, ND | |||||||||||||
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 Grand Forks station in May 2017 | |||||||||||||
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| Location | 5555 DeMers Avenue Grand Forks, North Dakota United States | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 47°55′03″N 97°06′39″W / 47.917411°N 97.110911°W | ||||||||||||
| Owned by | Amtrak | ||||||||||||
| Line(s) | BNSF Hillsboro Subdivision | ||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||||
| Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Parking | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||
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| Station code | Amtrak: GFK | ||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1982 | ||||||||||||
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| FY 2023 | 9,863[1] (Amtrak) | ||||||||||||
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It is located at a railroad wye where Amtrak trains headed for Chicago turn south. The station was built in a standard design by Amtrak in 1982, replacing the use of a Great Northern station downtown and allowing Amtrak to serve the city without having to go downtown and then back up. For a while before the station officially opened, trains stopped here and passengers were bussed to and from the old station.[2] The former Great Northern freight station has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1990.
Grand Forks is served by Amtrak's daily Empire Builder. Of the seven North Dakota stations served by Amtrak, Grand Forks was the fourth busiest in FY10, boarding or detraining an average of about 55 passengers daily.[3] The station is owned by Amtrak. The platform and tracks are owned by BNSF Railway.
Between late 2020 and November 2021, Amtrak completed a project to make the Grand Forks station compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.[4]
While there is no public transit service directly serving the station as of 2022, Cities Area Transit has a bus stop located at University Avenue and North 51st Street, approximately half a mile to the northeast.[5]
Gallery
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An eastbound Empire Builder pulled into the wye.
References
edit- ^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2023: State of North Dakota" (PDF). Amtrak. March 2024. Retrieved June 30, 2024.
- ^ "Empire Builder 75th Anniversary". Great Northern Railway Historical Society.
- ^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2010, State of North Dakota" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 19, 2012. Retrieved January 6, 2011.
- ^ "Amtrak completes $4 million project to make Grand Forks station accessible-compliant". Grand Forks Herald. November 16, 2021. Retrieved January 19, 2022.
- ^ "Cities Area Transit Route Map". Retrieved June 28, 2022.
External links
edit- Grand Forks, ND – Amtrak
- Grand Forks, ND – Station history at Great American Stations (Amtrak)
- Grand Forks Amtrak Station (USA Rail Guide -- Train Web)
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