Hartford, CT
Hartford Union Station in December 2017
General information
Location	One Union Place Hartford, Connecticut United States
Coordinates	41°46′08″N72°40′54″W / 41.76889°N 72.68167°W /41.76889; -72.68167
Owned by	Greater Hartford Transit District
Line	New Haven–Springfield Line
Platforms	1side platform
Tracks	1
Bus stands	15
Connections	CTtransit Greyhound Lines Peter Pan
Construction
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Station code	Amtrak:HFD
IATA code	ZRT
History
Rebuilt	1889, 1914, 1987
Passengers
FY 2024	279,696[1] (Amtrak)
Services Preceding station Amtrak Following station Berlin towardNorfolk,Newport News orRoanoke Northeast Regional Windsor towardSpringfield Berlin towardNew Haven Hartford Line Valley Flyer Windsor towardGreenfield Meriden towardWashington, D.C. Vermonter Windsor Locks towardSt. Albans Preceding station CT Rail Following station Berlin towardNew Haven Union Station Hartford Line Windsor towardSpringfield Preceding station CT Transit Following station Sigourney Street towardDowntown New Britain CT Fastrak Terminus
Former services Preceding station Amtrak Following station Berlin towardWashington, D.C. Montrealer Springfield towardMontreal Berlin towardAtlantic City Atlantic City Express 1991-1995 Windsor towardSpringfield
Hartford Union Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Area	3 acres (1.2 ha)
Built	1889
Architect	George Keller
Architectural style	Richardsonian Romanesque
NRHP reference No.	75001932
Added to NRHP	November 25, 1975
Location

Hartford Union Station is a railroad station inHartford, Connecticut, United States on theNew Haven–Springfield Line. It is served byAmtrakHartford Line,Northeast Regional,Valley Flyer, andVermonterintercity rail service, plusCT RailHartford Linecommuter rail service andCTfastrak bus rapid transit service.

TheRichardsonian Romanesque building was designed byGeorge Keller, executed byShepley, Rutan and Coolidge and built in 1889. A 1914 fire required a rebuild; the interior was renovated in 1987.^[2] It has been listed on theNational Register of Historic Places since 1975.

The station is located on the western edge of downtown Hartford, on a three-acre (1.2 ha) block between Union Place and Spruce Street on the east and west and Church and Asylum streets to the north and south.^[3] Opposite the main building on Union Place are a mixture of other old buildings and parking lots. To the west is a triangular parking lot and theviaduct carryingInterstate 84 andU.S. Route 6, which curves around the north of the station as well. Across Asylum on the south isBushnell Park, also listed on the Register.

The main building is located between the tracks and Union Place. It is a three-story rectangular building in rough-facedPortlandbrownstone with two smaller, similarly shaped two-story wings on the north and south. The main building has a flat roof; the wings aregabled and tiled, withdormer windows piercing them at regular intervals.^[3]

On the east (front)facade, a wide set of steps rises to the main entrance, beneath a flat hood at the springlines of three of the large segmental arches that run across the first story. Above these is a stylized floralmoldedcourse. The second story has similar but smaller segmental arches set with a recessed panel and four-pane windows. The centralbay has "1914" carved into its panel; all others are blank. The two wings have four-pane rectangular windows.^[3]

At the station level were originally four tracks (currently one) divided by a middle platform. Two sets of iron roofs create a train shed. On the wall side those roofs are supported by spiral-shaped ironbrackets. In the middle columns and simple curved iron brackets support thetrusses that hold up the shed roof.^[3]

The interior has been remodeled since the station was rebuilt. It is a mostly open area with stairs along the west wall leading up to the elevated tracks and benches along the east. Flooring is red tile. There are offices on the north and south; some look out over the main space.

The station was built in 1889, and served theHartford and New Haven Railroad,Central New England Railway,Hartford and Connecticut Valley Railroad (all of which were acquired by theNew York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad) and theNew York and New England Railroad, but the entire structure had to be rebuilt after a fire in 1914.^[2] It was listed on theNational Register of Historic Places as "Hartford Union Station" in 1975.^[4]

The station is currently served by one track and a side platform. The second track and platform were removed by Amtrak in the 1990s to reduce maintenance costs and because the underlying structure is no longer strong enough to support more than one train at a time. A 260-foot (79 m) section of the platform was converted to high level for accessible boarding as part of theHartford Line project. It features a 29-inch (740 mm)-wide hinged edge that can be flipped up to allow wide freight trains to pass. The new platform opened on August 4, 2016.^[5][6]Hartford Linecommuter rail service started on June 16, 2018.^[7]

CTfastrak service began on March 28, 2015, after fifteen years of planning and three years of construction.

TheI-84 Hartford Project may require realigning the highway and rail line, in which case new platforms would be constructed on the new alignment, though Union Station would continue to be used for ticketing and waiting area. The state released a slate of 5 options - some just west of the current station, others slightly to the south - in October 2017. A decision on which option will be built was expected in early 2018.^[8] In November 2024, ConnDOT was awarded a $2.6 million federal grant for planning of the station relocation and associated double-tracking work.^[9]

Hartford is situated midway along theNew Haven–Springfield Line, a non-electrified branch of the electrifiedNortheast Corridor. Amtrak operates four services through Hartford, with a total of about twenty trains per day in each direction. Four Amtrak services run on the New Haven–Springfield Line with a stop at Hartford: theVermonter, theValley Flyer, someNortheast Regional service, and theHartford Line.Hartford Line commuter rail service is split between Amtrak trains andConnDOT (CT Rail) trains.

Union Station serves as the northeastern terminus forCTfastrak, abus rapid transit system operating between the station andDowntown New Britain in centralConnecticut. Operated byConnecticut Transit, Five local and four express routes operate along the busway and over on-street loops in downtown Hartford.^[10]

CTTransit's Hartford Division provides local and express bus service to the station on a variety of routes.Greyhound,Peter Pan andFlixBus serve Union Station with intercity bus service.^[11][12]

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