Broad Street Station (Richmond)

Broad Street Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The Science Museum of Virginia currently occupies the old Broad Street Station building
Location:	Richmond, Virginia
Coordinates:	37°33′40″N 77°27′57″W
Built:	1919
Architect:	John Russell Pope
Architectural style:	Other
Governing body:	Science Museum of Virginia
NRHP Reference#:	72001518
Added to NRHP:	February 23, 1972

Broad Street Station (also known as Union Station) was a union railroad station in Richmond, Virginia, USA, across Broad Street from the Fan district.

It was built as the southern terminus for the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad (RF&P) in 1917 in the neoclassical style by the architect John Russell Pope. The station also served the trains of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (ACL), the Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W). Eventually, the Seaboard Air Line Railway (SAL), which had formerly used Richmond's other union station (Main Street Station), switched to Broad Street Station.

Passenger service to the station ceased in 1975. The station became the home of the Science Museum of Virginia, which remains in the substantially remodeled and expanded building.

See also

• History of Richmond, Virginia
• Transportation in Richmond, Virginia

Preceding station		Atlantic Coast Line Railroad		Following station
Falling Creek toward Tampa Union Station		Main Line		Terminus