MARC Tweaks Penn Line Schedule

MARC train is making a few tweaks to its Penn Line Schedule this week.

Beginning Monday (May 9), several trains will begin departing as many as five minutes earlier, while other trains will either add or lose stops.

None of the changes are considered major, but are designed to address overcrowding on certain trains. The changes come after MARC overhauled its rush hour schedule on the Penn Line in March.

The schedule adjustments are as follows:

 -Train 415 from Baltimore’s Penn Station will now depart five minutes earlier, at 7 a.m. It will also now make stops at West Baltimore (7:07 a.m.) and Halethorpe (7:13 a.m.) MARC said this will reduce overcrowding on the Train 517, which departs Penn Station at 7:15 a.m.

-Train 532 will now depart from Union Station four minutes earlier, at 4:25 p.m.

-Train 436 (5:10 p.m. departure from Washington) will stop at Odenton and Halethorpe as usual, but the stops will be changed to “L” stop, meaning that once passengers get off the train, it could leave as many as five minutes early.

 -Train 538 (5:20 departure from Washington) will change the BWI Airport and West Baltimore stops to “L” stops as well.

-Train 445 (5:20 p.m. departure from Penn Station) will add stops at Odenton, Bowie State and Seabrook.

-Train 447 (5:25 departure from Penn Station) will no longer stop at Odenton, Bowie State or Seabrook.