VRE completes Fredericksburg station project

Virginia Railway Express (VRE) recently hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the completion of improvements to its rail station in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

The $14.4 million project included rehabilitating existing platforms, stairs and all four rail bridges; constructing stairs to provide direct access from the platform to a parking lot; improving Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) access to the west-side elevator; adding signage, sidewalks and lighting; and refreshing the platform canopies and other areas with paint, according to a VRE press release.

Because of the improvements, the station and surrounding structures now resemble their original appearance from nearly a century earlier, they said. The work also will help maintain the structural integrity of the station and bridges in the future.

The Fredericksburg Station improvements project is part of the commonwealth’s $4 billion Transforming Rail in Virginia initiative and among the first to be completed since the program was announced in 2019.