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{{Short description|NJ Transit rail station}}
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{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2023}}
{{Infobox Station
| name               = Atlantic City
| style              = NJ Transit
| image              = NJ Transit GP40PH-2B 4216 waits to pull Train 4622.jpg
| image_caption      = New Jersey Transit train waits on Track 3 of the Atlantic City Rail Terminal
| address            = 1 [[Atlantic City Expressway]]
| borough            = [[Atlantic City, New Jersey]]
| coordinates        = {{coord|39.3635|-74.442|type:landmark_region:US|display=inline,title|name=Atlantic City Rail Terminal}}
| owned              = [[NJ Transit]]
| platform           = 2 [[island platform]]s, 1 [[side platform]]
| tracks             = 5
| connections        = {{bus icon}} [[Atlantic City Jitney Association]]: 4&nbsp;(Orange), 1, 2, 3
| parking            = Yes
| bicycle            = Yes
| accessible         = Yes
| code               = {{Amtrak code|ACY}}
| iata               = ZRA
| opened             = May&nbsp;23, 1989 (Amtrak)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Comegino |first1=Carol |title=Railroad Buffs Witness History in First Run of Gamblers Express |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/58680995/atlantic-city-station-may-24-1989/ |access-date=September 9, 2020 |work=The Courier-Post |date=May 24, 1989 |location=[[Camden, New Jersey]] |page=6|via=Newspapers.com}} {{open access}}</ref><br>September&nbsp;17, 1989 (NJ Transit)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gold |first1=Jeffrey |title=Commuter Rail Service Restored to Atlantic City |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/58681099/nj-transit-ac-september-15-1989/ |access-date=September 9, 2020 |work=[[The Asbury Park Press]] |date=September 15, 1989 |page=3|via=Newspapers.com}} {{open access}}</ref>
| passengers = 498 (average weekday)<ref name="ridership">{{cite report|url=https://archive.org/details/njt-boarding-data-q-1-2025-1|title=Average Weekday Rail Station Passenger Boardings History, FY 2019&ndash;2025|publisher=[[NJ Transit]]|date=2025|accessdate=June 1, 2025|via=[[Internet Archive]]|location=[[Newark, New Jersey]]}}</ref>
| pass_year = 2024
| services           = {{Adjacent stations|system=NJ Transit|line=Atlantic City|left=Absecon}}
| other_services_header = Former services
| other_services_collapsible = yes
| other_services     = {{Adjacent stations|system1=NJ Transit
|line1=ACES|right1=Newark Penn|note-mid1=2009–2011
|system2=Amtrak
|line2=Atlantic City Express|left2=Cherry Hill|note-left2={{refn|Next station was {{stl|NJ Transit|Lindenwold}} until the opening of Cherry Hill station in 1994}}
}}
| mapframe           = yes
| mapframe-custom    = {{Infobox mapframe |shape=none |line=none |marker=rail |marker-color=#{{rcr|NJ Transit|Atlantic City}} |zoom=12 }}
}}

[[File:Atlantic City Rail Terminal Waiting Area.jpg|right|thumb|The waiting area of the Atlantic City Rail Terminal]]

The '''Atlantic City Rail Terminal''' is [[Atlantic City, New Jersey|Atlantic City]], [[New Jersey]]'s train station, located inside of the [[Atlantic City Convention Center]].<ref>[http://world.nycsubway.org/us/njtransit/njtac.html NJT Atlantic City Line], accessed November 14, 2006</ref> It has five tracks served by three platforms and functions as the easternmost terminus of the [[NJ Transit]] [[Atlantic City Line]] to and from [[Philadelphia]]. The station was also served by the [[Atlantic City Express Service]] (ACES) from 2009 until it was formally discontinued on March 9, 2012.<ref>{{cite news|last=Wittowski|first=Donald|title=Casinos end ACES train service from Atlantic City to New York|url=http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/press/atlantic_city/casinos-end-aces-train-service-from-atlantic-city-to-new/article_7620733a-6a0a-11e1-88c2-001871e3ce6c.html|access-date=March 11, 2012|newspaper=Press of Atlantic City|date=March 10, 2012}}</ref>

The terminal was designed by TAT/SSVK, Architects and dedicated on May 22, 1989.<ref>{{cite web |title=Atlantic City Rail Terminal dedication booklet, 1989. |url=https://history.amtrak.com/archives/atlantic-city-rail-terminal-dedication-booklet-1989 |website=history.amtrak.com |publisher=Amtrak History |access-date=11 February 2023}}</ref>
Atlantic City was once served by the old [[Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines]] Atlantic City station (originally [[Atlantic City Union Station]]), which had become Atlantic City Municipal Bus Terminal, demolished in 1997.<ref>Annotations to photograph "[https://www.loc.gov/item/nj1582/ Atlantic City Union Station, 2121-2125 Arctic Avenue, Atlantic City, Atlantic County, NJ]" (Historic American Buildings Survey item NJ-1218).</ref>  Between 1965 and 1981 a single-story, two-track station on the present site served PRSL trains until service ended in 1981.

==Connecting service==
*At the station/convention center: [[Atlantic City Jitney Association|Atlantic City Jitney]] casino shuttles and route 4
*Two blocks south at the [[Atlantic City Bus Terminal]]: [[List of New Jersey Transit bus routes (300-399)|319 to New York City]]  and all [[List of New Jersey Transit bus routes (500-549)|Atlantic County local]] and [[List of New Jersey Transit bus routes (550-599)|long-distance routes]].

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[[Category:Railway stations in Atlantic County, New Jersey]]
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