Mount Joy station (Pennsylvania)

Mount Joy is an Amtrak intercity railway station located about 13 miles northwest of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, at East Henry Street and North Market Street in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania. It is served by most Amtrak Keystone Service trains.

Mount Joy, PA
Mount Joy station in June 2013
Location25 Market Street, Mount Joy, Pennsylvania
Coordinates40°6′31.5″N 76°30′10″W
Owned byAmtrak
Line(s)Keystone Corridor (Main Line)
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
Connections RRTA: 18
Construction
ParkingYes
Disabled accessYes
Other information
Station codeMJY
History
Rebuilt2016–2019
ElectrifiedJanuary 15, 1938[1]
Passengers
FY 201746,101[2]  9.2%
Services
Preceding station Amtrak Following station
Elizabethtown
toward Harrisburg
 Keystone Service Lancaster
toward New York
     Pennsylvanian does not stop here
Former services
Preceding station Pennsylvania Railroad Following station
Elizabethtown
toward Chicago
 Main Line Lancaster
toward New York or Exchange Place
Florin
toward Chicago
 Landisville
toward New York or Exchange Place

The station formerly was a makeshift bus shelter in a railroad cut but replaced by an Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990-accessible platform. There is no ticket office at this station.

Red Rose Transit Authority, based in Lancaster, operates its Route 18 bus through Mount Joy one block from the station.

History

Mount Joy was rebuilt between 2016 and 2019.[3][4] The project raised the platforms to reduce dwell time, have platforms be covered with a canopy to protect passengers from the elements, add elevators in order to comply with Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and construct a pedestrian walkway allowing easy access between the platforms. The slope was stabilized while additional parking spaces complemented an earlier phase where 69 parking spaces were added in 2012.[3] Michael Baker International are the architects while Wagman was contracted to construct the new station.[5] The station was rededicated on October 21, 2019 at a cost of $33 million, $8 million more than initially anticipated.[3][4]

Station layout

There are two tracks, each with a side platform.

G Street Level Exit/entrance and parking
P
Platform level		 Side platform, doors will open on the right
Track 2 ←      Keystone Service toward Harrisburg (Elizabethtown)
←      Pennsylvanian does not stop here
Track 1 ←      Pennsylvanian does not stop here →
←      Keystone Service toward Philadelphia or New York (Lancaster) →
Side platform, doors will open on the right

References
  1. "Pennsy Completes New Electric Link". The Wilkes-Barre Times Leader. January 15, 1938. p. 1. Retrieved August 22, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. "Amtrak State Fact Sheet, FY2017, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2017. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  3. DuPuis, Roger (October 27, 2016). "$25 million train station upgrade underway in Mount Joy". Central Penn Business Journal. Retrieved March 3, 2017.
  4. "PennDOT, Federal Transit Administration celebrate opening of new Mount Joy Train Station". WPMT. York, Pennsylvania. October 21, 2019. Retrieved October 22, 2019.
  5. "Mount Joy Train Station". Wagman.com. Retrieved September 4, 2019.


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