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 Union Station in 1946. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| System | Inter-city rail | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1930 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Closed | 1971 (demolished 1972) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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TheUnion Station built in 1930 inAtlanta was the smaller of two principal train stations in downtown,Terminal Station being the other (the latter servedSouthern Railway,Seaboard Air Line,Central of Georgia (including theNancy Hanks toSavannah), and theAtlanta and West Point). It was the third "union station" or "union depot" (usage varied in the 19th century), succeedingthe 1853 station, which theU.S. military destroyed in November 1864 along with other Confederate war infrastructure, andthe 1871 station.
The station was located over the tracks between Forsyth and Spring Streets, three blocks west and one block south of the predecessor union stations.[1]
The site is the block immediately west ofFive Points MARTA station.
Opening on April 18, 1930, the third Union Station served theGeorgia Railroad,Atlantic Coast Line (previously theAtlanta, Birmingham and Coast Railroad), andLouisville and Nashville (previously theNashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway).[1] It replaced earlier stations on the same site.[2]
Major trains and destinations:
After the tenant railroads of Union Station had discontinued all their passenger trains (the last such train operated on April 30, 1971, the day beforeAmtrak came into existence),[2] demolition started in August 1971,[4] and the station was razed in 1972.[3][5][6]
Remnants of the platform may be seen behind theAtlanta Journal-Constitution building although construction ofUnderground Atlanta andMARTA largely obliterated the site.
There have been plans to resurrect Union station with another intermodal facility, but they have not gotten past the proposal phase.[6] The Atlanta area is currently served by the Peachtree station by Amtrak.[3]
33°45′18″N84°23′33″W / 33.755°N 84.3925°W /33.755; -84.3925
