Harrisburg Transportation Center

Harrisburg Transportation Center
Location	4th and Chestnut Streets Harrisburg, PA 17101
Coordinates	40°15′43″N 76°52′40″W / 40.26194°N 76.87778°W / 40.26194; -76.87778
Owned by	Amtrak
Line(s)	Keystone Corridor (Main Line, Pittsburgh Line)
Platforms	4 island platforms
Tracks	8
Connections	Greyhound Lines Fullington Trailways Susquehanna Trailways Capital Area Transit Rabbit Transit
Construction
Parking	Metered
Bicycle facilities	Outside racks
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Station code	HAR
History
Opened	1887
Rebuilt	1905, 1986
Traffic
Passengers (2016)	508,624  0.0001%
Services
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station Terminus Keystone Service Middletown toward New York City Lewistown toward Pittsburgh Pennsylvanian Elizabethtown toward New York City   Former services   Pennsylvania Railroad Marysville toward Chicago Main Line Middletown toward New York City or Exchange Place Dauphin toward Buffalo Buffalo – Harrisburg Terminus Dauphin toward Erie Erie – Harrisburg Dauphin toward Canandelaigua Williamsport Division Lemoyne toward Winchester Winchester – Harrisburg Terminus Northern Central Railway New Cumberland toward Baltimore   Former services   Preceding station   Reading Railroad   Following station Canal toward Reading Outer Station Lebanon Valley Branch Terminus Rockville toward Auburn Schuylkill and Susquehanna Branch Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station Lewistown toward Kansas City National Limited Elizabethtown toward New York City National Limited Baltimore toward Washington, DC
Harrisburg Central Railroad Station and Trainshed
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
Coordinates	40°15′43″N 76°52′40″W / 40.26194°N 76.87778°W / 40.26194; -76.87778Coordinates: 40°15′43″N 76°52′40″W / 40.26194°N 76.87778°W / 40.26194; -76.87778
Built	1887
Architect	Unknown
Architectural style	Colonial Revival
NRHP Reference #	75001638
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	June 11, 1975
Designated NHL	December 8, 1976

The Harrisburg Transportation Center (formerly Pennsylvania Station, Harrisburg or Harrisburg Central Railroad Station) is a large railway station and transportation hub in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It is located on the eastern edge of Downtown Harrisburg between the intersections of Aberdeen and Market Streets and 4th and Chestnut Streets. The well-situated station is the primary hub for passenger rail and intercity bus services in the Harrisburg metropolitan area and South Central Pennsylvania.

The current station is the third on the site. Though technically a union station (meaning it was used by several railways), it was never identified as such in publications such as the Official Guide of the Railroads and Steam Navigation Lines or Pennsylvania Railroad Timetables. The first two stations were shared by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR), Reading Railroad, Northern Central Railway (NCR), and the Cumberland Valley Railroad (CVR). The third (and current) station excluded the Reading Railroad, which built its own station in 1856, and the CVR maintained a small depot adjoining the much larger NCR/PRR station. The CVR station was razed sometime in the late 1960s or early 1970s. The Reading Railroad discontinued passenger service into Harrisburg in the 1950s and its station was torn down in the early 1960s to make room for a new post office.

The current station was built by PRR in 1887 and significantly rebuilt with its distinctive barn roof in 1905 following a serious fire in 1904. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, and is also designated as a National Historic Landmark. The station is one of the few railway stations in the United States that still has a train shed above the tracks. It also has a red brick exterior, unlike many of the still-used U.S. railway stations built slightly later in the early 1900s that have white stone facing, such as 30th Street Station in Philadelphia and Union Station in Washington, D.C.