Huntington (Amtrak station)
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The Huntington Amtrak station is an Amtrak
Amtrak
The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak , is a government-owned corporation that was organized on May 1, 1971, to provide intercity passenger train service in the United States. "Amtrak" is a portmanteau of the words "America" and "track". It is headquartered at Union...

 station in Huntington, West Virginia
Huntington, West Virginia
Huntington is a city in Cabell and Wayne counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia, along the Ohio River. Most of the city is in Cabell County, for which it is the county seat. A small portion of the city, mainly the neighborhood of Westmoreland, is in Wayne County. Its population was 49,138 at...

. Located at 1050 8th Avenue, the station consists of a platform on the south side of the east-west tracks, a small parking lot, and a small building in between. The station contains a waiting room and ticket office.

Huntington is served by the Cardinal route. Of the ten West Virginia stations served by Amtrak, Huntington was the busiest in FY2010, boarding or detraining an average of approximately 30 passengers daily.

Transit Connections

Huntington station is located six blocks south and two blocks west of the Tri-State Transit Authority
Tri-State Transit Authority
The Tri-State Transit Authority , which markets itself as "THE Transit Authority, is the city bus system in Huntington, West Virginia and Ironton, Ohio as well as its suburbs. Its buses range, on the West Virginia side from 19th Street West in Huntington to Milton, West Virginia, about 20 miles to...

Transit Center. Most TTA bus routes and the Greyhound Bus stop at that station. For closer connections, riders can take advantage of TTA Routes 2, 4, 5, 6, 10, which pass two blocks of the station at 4th Avenue. It should be noted that those connects aren't always practical under current Cardinal schedule. The passengers who arrive on the eastbound train from Chicago can easily transfer to any route that serves the Transit Center, most bus routes don't start running until the train departs. Except for the few PM routes, most TTA routes stop running hours before the westbound train arrives, limiting options for any passengers who are either boarding or disembarking from the train.

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