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Virginia Association of Railway Patrons
Modern Transportation for the Virginias
Summary of Agreement to Return Amtrak to Roanoke
Dan Peacock compiled this summary on January 15, 2014, from a signed copy provided to him by the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation on January 14, 2014.
Who |
Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation and Norfolk Southern Corporation (p. 1) |
When |
January 8, 2014 (p. 2) |
Why |
The agreement provides funds to complete infrastructure improvements before Amtrak passenger service begins between Lynchburg and Roanoke (p. 1). |
Funding Source |
- Virginia Transportation Act 2000 Priority Transportation Fund
- Intercity Passenger Rail Operating and Capital Fund (p. 1)
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What |
One round trip per day between Roanoke and Lynchburg (p. 4)
Maximum speed: 79 miles per hour (p. 5)
Reduction in travel time to and from Roanoke: approximately half an hour (p. 26)
Cost: $92.7 million (p. 24):
- Green-Smothers double track: $37.1 million
- Raising heights of three Altavista-Roanoke tunnels: $36 million
- Roanoke station and maintenance facility: $9.4 million
- Lynchburg wye: $4.5 million
- Lynchburg second platform: $3.6 million
- Roanoke capacity: $1.5 million
- Roanoke station and maintenance facility design: $0.6 million
Roanoke is responsible for costs associated with the
- Station headhouse building (p. 5)
- Parking structures (p. 5)
- Culvert replacement in the rail yard
Additional, future (not high-speed) service may be possible (p. 17, Sec. 12.1)
Proposed construction schedule (pp. 6-7):
- Construction starts: January 2015
- Green-Smothers double track completed: January 2016
- Lynchburg wye and platform completed: January 2016
- Roanoke station and maintenance facility completed: October 2016
- Virginia accepts the project for revenue passenger service: October 2016
- Heights of three tunnels between Altavista and Roanoke raised for double-stack freight trains: December 2016
- Virginia accepts the entire project: September 2017
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