Orlando (Amtrak station)
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| Orlando Amtrak station |
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.jpg) Front entrance to the 1926-built Orlando Station. Originally used by ACL now by Amtrak. |
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| Address | 1400 Sligh Boulevard Orlando, Florida |
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| Coordinates | 28°31′33″N 81°22′53″W / 28.52590°N 81.38130°WCoordinates: 28°31′33″N 81°22′53″W / 28.52590°N 81.38130°W | ||||||||||||||||||
| Lines | Amtrak: Silver Star | ||||||||||||||||||
| Connections | Thruway Motorcoach Lynx bus #40 |
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| Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Parking | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1926 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Accessible |  |
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| Code | ORL | ||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Amtrak | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Passengers (2008) | 147,491[1] ▲ 14% | ||||||||||||||||||
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The Orlando Amtrak station lies south of Downtown Orlando, about a mile south of the old stations at Church Street and Central Boulevard. It was built in 1926 by M. A. Griffith and W. T. Hadlow for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in the Spanish Mission style, and used by the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad after the 1967 merger with the Seaboard Air Line Railroad. Before the new station was built, the ACL station was at Church Street; this is now the Church Street Station tourist attraction. The SAL had a separate station at Central Boulevard (see Orlando).
Thruway Motorcoach service, as of February 2006, is no longer provided by Coach USA to area hotels and attractions. Martz Tampa Bay provides this service for Amtrak to Lakeland, Tampa, Pinellas Park-St. Petersburg, Bradenton, Sarasota, Port Charlotte and Fort Myers. Local hotel transfer shuttle service is also still available, but again, no longer through Coach USA.
Orlando station serves the Silver Meteor and Silver Star lines. It was also the eastern terminus of the Sunset Limited between Orlando and Los Angeles. However, due to the effects of Hurricane Katrina, the Sunset Limited between New Orleans and Orlando has been suspended indefinitely.
Orlando station is projected to be a station stop on the proposed SunRail system. Proposals include a matching canopy for the second platform, and a name change to "Orlando Health/Amtrak Station" due to its proximity to the Orlando Regional Medical Center.[2]
[edit] Connections
- Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach
- LYNX bus (link) 40 - Public Bus System
[edit] References
- ^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2008 - State of Florida". Amtrak Government Affairs. November 2008. http://www.amtrak.com/pdf/factsheets/FLORIDA08.pdf. Retrieved 2009-04-25.
- ^ Orlando Health/Amtrak Station (SunRail)
[edit] External links
- Orlando: A Visual History 1926
- September 18, 1999 Photograph (Amtrak Photo Archive)
- Orlando Amtrak Station, and former Atlantic Coast Line Station (USA Rail Guide - TrainWeb)
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