Montgomery Union Station
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Montgomery Union Station
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| inter-city rail station | |
Union Station Montgomery, circa 1900.
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| Location |
Montgomery, Alabama USA |
| History | |
| Opened | 1898 |
| Closed | 1979 |
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Montgomery Union Station and Trainshed
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| Coordinates | 32°22′50″N 86°18′51″W / 32.38056°N 86.31417°WCoordinates: 32°22′50″N 86°18′51″W / 32.38056°N 86.31417°W |
| Built | 1897 |
| Architect | Benjamin Bosworth Smith |
| Architectural style | Other, Romanesque |
| NRHP Reference # | 73000368 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | July 24, 1973 |
| Designated NHL | December 8, 1976 |
Montgomery Union Station and Trainshed is a historic former train station in Montgomery, Alabama. Built in 1898 by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, rail service to the station ended in 1979 and it has since been adapted for use by the Montgomery Area Visitor Center and commercial tenants. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and became a National Historic Landmark in 1976.
Erected of brick and limestone on a high bluff along the Alabama River, the station was built by Louisville and Nashville Railroad in 1898. The station also served passenger trains of Atlantic Coast Line, Western Railway of Alabama, Seaboard Air Line, Central of Georgia, and Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad. The station had six tracks under a 600-foot shed, with a coach yard on the south end of the station as well as a Railway Express Agency facility. The station's design segregated passengers by race and incorporated Romanesque Revival elements.
The number of passenger trains using Union Station declined during the 1950s and 1960s. When Amtrak came into existence in 1971, it continued passenger service through Montgomery with a single train (the South Wind, later renamed the Floridian), operating between Chicago and Miami. However, this train was terminated in 1979 and Union Station was closed.
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