Baltimore City Guide - Getting There By Rail

Penn Station, 1515 North Charles Street (tel: (410) 291 4165/9), is located about 3.2km (2 miles) from the inner harbour. It is served well by MARC and AMTRAK and has restaurants, ATMs, a postal vending machine, waiting room, phones, baggage checking, porter service, full disabled access and car hire. There is no integrated national enquiries hotline, so contact your service provider or relevant station.

Rail services: Baltimore is situated along the north-eastern Amtrak corridor from Washington, DC to Boston via Philadelphia and New York. Journey times are as follows: Washington (40 minutes), New York (2 hours 30 minutes), Boston (7 hours), Orlando (20hours) and Miami (24 hours) in Florida, New Orleans (38 hours) in Louisiana and Raleigh (7 hours) in North Carolina. Change in Washington for local trains to West Virginia.