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Norfolk International Airport continued to grow in the 1990s, expanding its air cargo terminal, parking facilities, and passenger terminal. In 1991, a new concourse extension with 10 additional gates was completed, along with a modern fire station and FAA air traffic control tower.
Norfolk Terminal Station was a railroad union station located in Norfolk, Virginia, which served passenger trains and provided offices for the Norfolk and Western Railway, the original Norfolk Southern Railway (a regional carrier in Virginia and North Carolina which became part of and later lent its name to the much larger company known as Norfolk Southern in the 1980s) and the Virginian Railway.
The N&W moved their Norfolk passenger station from Norfolk Terminal Station to a new structure near Lambert's Point in 1962. The station, at 2200 Redgate Avenue, [ 4 ] remained in use under the N&W until 1971, then by the Amtrak Mountaineer from 1975 to 1977.
Norfolk International Terminal. Norfolk International Terminals is the largest of the four facilities, with a land area of 648 acres (2.62 km 2). The terminal has fifty-foot-deep entrance channels at the north and south ends. The terminal is serviced by 89,300 feet (27,200 m) of rail track and 11 Suez-class container cranes.
Norfolk Southern passenger service was discontinued by the end of the 1940s. [2] The Virginian Railway passenger trains were discontinued by 1956. [3] The N&W trains ceased using Terminal Station in 1962; the last N&W train, the Pocahontas continued to 1971 at the replacement station. Today, Norfolk is served by Amtrak at the Norfolk station.
A £49.5m government grant has enabled the council to launch new routes and lower fares.
The city of Norfolk had long been served by passenger railroads, including Norfolk & Western at Norfolk Terminal Station (demolished 1963), and then by N&W and Amtrak at Lambert's Point station. But passenger service to the city dwindled in the mid-20th century and stopped altogether in 1977, when Amtrak ended its Mountaineer train.
The line from Lamberts Point to Canal Drive, Norfolk was separated from the Norfolk District and became a new rail line called Norfolk Terminal. The Norfolk District is part of the Lamberts Point to Roanoke rail corridor. At one time the line's original name was restored as a timetable name and the line was grouped with the Norfolk Terminal in ...