NRV Rail: Putting passengers on track

Who We Are

NRV Passenger Rail is broad-based community initiative to bring Amtrak passenger rail service to Virginia's New River Valley. Formed in 2013, NRV Passenger Rail represents a unique partnership between business, municipal, legislative, and university leaders with support from all corners of our region. With involvement from every municipality in the region and major universities, alongside strong legislative support and business commitments, the effort represents all facets of civic leadership in the region. Administrative support is provided by The Blacksburg Partnership. NRV Passenger Rail seeks to gain funding for extending Amtrak's Northeast Regional Service to Christiansburg. Currently, Roanoke serves as the southernmost terminus for the Northeast Regional, which provides passenger rail along the nation's Mid-Atlantic corridor north to Boston. The New River Valley, with more than 180,000 residents, is the state's fastest growing region west of Richmond. It has ample demographics to support passenger rail usage, particularly more than 40,000 students at Virginia Tech and Radford University.

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