Camden Line

{{Short description|MARC commuter rail line between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland}}

{{Use American English|date=April 2024}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2024}}

{{Distinguish|text=the Camden railway line, a closed railway line between Campbelltown and Camden in Sydney, Australia}}

{{Infobox rail line

| name = Camden Line

| color = {{rcr|MARC|Camden}}

| image = MARC52.jpg

| image_width = 300px

| caption = MARC EMD GP40WH-2 at Camden Station

| type = Commuter rail

| system = MARC Train

| status = Active

| locale = Washington, D.C. and Baltimore suburbs

| start = Washington Union Station (Washington, D.C)

| end = Camden Station (Baltimore)

| stations = 12

| trainnumber = 840–860

| daily_ridership = 4,684 (June 2017){{Cite web |url=https://opendata.maryland.gov/dataset/GOPI-Resource-MM-MTA-Average-Weekday-Ridership/t2jw-tiu2 |title=MTA Average Weekday Ridership - by Month |date=June 2017 |website=Maryland Open Data Portal |access-date=June 2, 2019}}

| open = 1830

| owner = CSX Transportation (tracks)

| operator = Alstom/Maryland Transit Administration

| character =

| linelength = {{convert|39|mi|km|abbr=on}}

| gauge = {{track gauge|ussg}}

| speed = {{cvt|32.5|mph}} ({{Tooltip|avg.|average speed (including stops)}})
{{cvt|70|mph}} ({{Tooltip|top|top speed}})

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| {{maplink-road|from=Camden Line.map}} Camden Line highlighted in orange

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The Camden Line is a MARC commuter rail line that runs for {{convert|39|mi|km|abbr=on}} between Washington Union Station in Washington, D.C., and Camden Station in Baltimore, Maryland, over the CSX Capital Subdivision and Baltimore Terminal Subdivision. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad began running commuter service from Baltimore to Ellicott City over part of the current line's trackage on May 24, 1830, making this corridor one of the country's oldest rail routes still in operation.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IEPCqQErPHAC |title=History of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad |last=Stover |first=John F. |date=January 1, 1995 |publisher=Purdue University Press |isbn=9781557530660 |language=en}} The line was extended to Washington on August 25, 1835.{{Cite book | title = The Great Road: The Building of the Baltimore and Ohio, the Nation's First Railroad, 1828-1853 | last = Dilts | first = James D. | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=JjrCWPwvHzIC&q=%22Baltimore+who+traveled+to+the+capital+on+August+25,+1835+to+open+the+Washington+branch+officially%22&pg=PA184 |page=184 | location = Palo Alto, CA | publisher = Stanford University Press | year = 1996 | isbn = 978-0-8047-2629-0}} The Camden Line is the shortest MARC line. {{As of|2019}}, the Camden Line is a weekday-only service.{{Cite web |url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/mta-website-staging/mta-website-staging/files/Routes+Schedules/marc_camden-washington.pdf |title=MARC Camden Line Weekday Schedule |date=March 2017 |publisher=MTA Maryland |access-date=June 1, 2019}}