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The Centennial Station (also known as the Olympia-Lacey Amtrak Station) is a train station located immediately south of Lacey, Washington, United States that also serves the capital city of Olympia. The station is served by Amtrak's (the National Railroad Passenger Corporation) Amtrak ''Cascades'' and ''Coast Starlight''. Although the Amtrak ''Cascades'' runs between Eugene, Oregon and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, there is no train that starts at one terminus and ends at the other. However, each day eight Amtrak ''Cascades'' trains (four northbound and four southbound) stop at the Centennial Station. The ''Coast Starlight'' has a simpler, less frequent schedule and runs daily in each direction between Los Angeles, California and Seattle. (The next northbound stop on both Amtrak trains is in Tacoma and the next southbound stop is in Centralia.) Local transit connections are provided by Intercity Transit. Bus routes 64 and 94 connect to Lacey and Olympia Transit centers. Of the eighteen Washington stations served by Amtrak, Olympia-Lacey was the fifth busiest in fiscal year 2010, boarding or detraining an average of about 170 passengers daily. ==History== The original Union Pacific station at East Olympia was demolished in the late 1960s. It was used by the pool trains that ran between Seattle and Portland by all three railroads that used the line, Northern Pacific, Great Northern, and Union Pacific. Amtrak trains during the 1970s and 1980s used a wooden shelter as East Olympia's passenger train station, however the station site was remote and had no public transport, no lighting and a pot-holed gravel parking lot with a public telephone that rarely worked. The new Centennial Station was built by the non-profit Amtrak Depot Committee and opened in early 1993 following a six-year fundraising and lobbying effort by citizens of Thurston County. It is believed to be the only Amtrak station in the nation operated and built entirely by volunteers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Washington State Department of Transportation ) 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Centennial Station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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