Alliance (Amtrak station)
| Alliance Amtrak Inter-city rail |
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 The old platform photographed in 2002. |
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| Address | 820 East Main Street Alliance, OH 44601 |
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| Coordinates | 40°55′17″N 81°05′35″W / 40.9213°N 81.0930°WCoordinates: 40°55′17″N 81°05′35″W / 40.9213°N 81.0930°W | ||||||||||
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| Connections | Stark Area Regional Transit Authority | ||||||||||
| Structure | At-grade | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
| Parking | Free | ||||||||||
| Baggage check | No | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 1990-11-11 | ||||||||||
| Code | ALC | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Amtrak | ||||||||||
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| Passengers (2011) | 3,824[1]  5% |
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The Alliance Amtrak station is an Amtrak station in Alliance, Ohio, United States. Located at 820 East Main Street, the station consists of an uncovered platform on the south side of the east-west tracks, with a bus stop-style shelter and a small parking lot nearby.
Alliance is served by the Capitol Limited route. Because the station consists of only one platform, westbound trains switch to the usual eastbound tracks to pass the station. Amtrak is the only way, other than by car or the Stark Area Regional Transit Authority (SARTA) bus from elsewhere in Stark County, for travel to Alliance, the home of Mount Union College, as the city has neither commercial bus nor airline service.
The station serves Canton, Youngstown, and Akron, both of which are forty-minutes (or more) away by car. Alliance is also listed as being the closest Amtrak station to the state's capital city of Columbus, Ohio.
[edit] Transit Connections
SARTA's Alliance Transit Center is located within walking distance of the station, which serves as a point of convergence for all routes that serve Alliance (Routes 130, 131, 135, 136, 139). However, the current calling times of the Capitol Limited make the connection difficult. All SARTA service to Alliance ends three hours before the arrival of the Chicago-bound train and doesn't resume until three hours after the arrival of the Washington D.C.-bound train.
[edit] References
- ^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2011, State of Ohio" (PDF). Amtrak. December 2011. http://www.amtrak.com/pdf/factsheets/OHIO11.pdf. Retrieved 4 February 2012.
[edit] External links
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