Amtrak Virginia Closes State Fiscal Year with Record Ridership

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Amtrak Virginia closed the state fiscal year by setting another ridership record.

In the state’s fiscal 2025, more than 1.4 million passengers traveled on Amtrak Virginia. This represented a 4.8% increase compared to SFY2024 and was the highest ridership recorded since the state-supported service launched in 2009.

Increases were seen on all four corridors, with Roanoke leading the way with an increase of 6.9%. The Norfolk corridor carried the most passengers with 542,743 people traveling in the state’s fiscal 2025.

“The growth that we are continually seeing in our Amtrak Virginia ridership just confirms our work to expand passenger rail in Virginia,” DJ Stadtler, executive director of VPRA, said in a release. “We have projects progressing throughout the Commonwealth from Northern Virginia to Richmond to the New River Valley. These projects will be transformative for the state’s transportation mix and are necessary to keep Virginians moving.”

Amtrak Virginia is the commonwealth’s state-supported passenger rail service. VPRA’s Transforming Rail in Virginia initiative should allow the state to expand Amtrak Virginia.