Grand Forks station

Grand Forks station is a train station in western Grand Forks, North Dakota. It is served by Amtrak's Empire Builder line.

For other uses, see Grand Forks station (disambiguation).

Grand Forks, ND
Grand Forks station in May 2017
General information
Location5555 DeMers Avenue
Grand Forks, North Dakota
United States
Coordinates47.917411°N 97.110911°W / 47.917411; -97.110911
Owned byAmtrak
Line(s)BNSF Hillsboro Subdivision
Platforms1 side platform
Tracks1
Construction
ParkingYes
AccessibleYes
Other information
Station codeAmtrak: GFK
History
Opened1982
Passengers
FY 20228,181[1] (Amtrak)
Services
Preceding station Amtrak Following station
Devils Lake
toward Seattle or Portland
 Empire Builder Fargo
toward Chicago
Former services
Preceding station Great Northern Railway Following station
Emerado
toward Seattle
 Main Line Hillsboro
toward St. Paul

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]

  • An eastbound Empire Builder pulled into the wye.
    An eastbound Empire Builder pulled into the wye.

Station layout
Westbound/
Eastbound		 ←      Empire Builder toward Seattle or Portland (Devils Lake)
→      Empire Builder toward Chicago (Fargo) →
Side platform, doors will open on the left, right

References
  1. "Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2022: State of North Dakota" (PDF). Amtrak. June 2023. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
  2. "Empire Builder 75th Anniversary". Great Northern Railway Historical Society.
  3. "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.
  4. "Amtrak completes $4 million project to make Grand Forks station accessible-compliant". Grand Forks Herald. November 16, 2021. Retrieved January 19, 2022.
  5. "Cities Area Transit Route Map". Retrieved June 28, 2022.


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