Union Station (Winnipeg)
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Union Station
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The main entrance to Union Station.
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| Location | 123 Main Street Winnipeg, MB R3C 1A3 (corner of Main Street and Broadway) |
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| Coordinates | 49°53′20″N 97°08′03″W / 49.88889°N 97.13417°WCoordinates: 49°53′20″N 97°08′03″W / 49.88889°N 97.13417°W | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Via Rail | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 8 | |||||||||||||||
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Winnipeg Transit Greyhound Canada |
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| Structure type | Beaux-Arts building | |||||||||||||||
| Parking | Privately operated | |||||||||||||||
| Disabled access | Yes | |||||||||||||||
| Architect | Warren and Wetmore | |||||||||||||||
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| Station code | VIA Rail: WNPG IATA: XEF |
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| Opened | 1911 | |||||||||||||||
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| Official name | Union Station / Winnipeg Railway Station (Canadian National) | |||||||||||||||
| Designated | 1976 | |||||||||||||||
| Reference no. | 4484 | |||||||||||||||
Union Station is the inter-city railway station for Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is a grand beaux-arts structure situated near The Forks in downtown Winnipeg, and was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1976.
Constructed between 1908 and 1911, the station was built as a joint venture between the Canadian Northern Railway, National Transcontinental, Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and the Dominion government. The first train to enter the station did so on 7 August 1911, with the official opening the following year on 24 June 1912.
Union Station was designed by Warren and Wetmore, the architects responsible for Grand Central Terminal in New York City. Designed in the Beaux-Arts style and constructed from local Tyndall limestone, Union Station was one of Western Canada’s largest railway stations.
The building extends for 350 feet (110 m) along Main Street, with the entrance close to the intersection of Main Street and Broadway. The building's entrance doors are located under a decorative iron canopy that projects from the austere white limestone. Atop the building is a large dome.
Union Station was for many years an important transportation hub in the region. Thousands of immigrants passed through its halls, and it was home to the regional office of the Canadian National Railway which inherited the building from its predecessors. There were once several trans-border trains to Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota operating out of the station. The Great Northern Railway had its Winnipeg Limited, while the Northern Pacific Railway also had an unnamed day train. Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad had its Winnipeger, which did not serve Union Station, terminating at Canadian Pacific's station on Higgins Avenue up until its discontinuance in 1967. All of these services were discontinued prior to Amtrak and there are no present plans to reinstate any of them.
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