Alliance station

Alliance
Amtrak Inter-city rail
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General information
Location	820 East Main Street Alliance, OH 44601
Coordinates	40.9213°N 81.0930°W / 40.9213; -81.0930
Owned by	Amtrak
Line(s)	Capitol Limited
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	2
Connections	Stark Area Regional Transit Authority
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Parking	Free
Other information
Station code	ALC
History
Opened	1990-11-11
Passengers
FY2010	3,641  8.2%
Services
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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.

Of the seven Ohio stations served by Amtrak, Alliance was the seventh busiest in FY2010, boarding or detraining an average of approximately 10 passengers daily.

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.

External links

• Alliance, OH – Amtrak
• Alliance, OH – Station history at Great American Stations (Amtrak)
• Alliance Amtrak Station (USA Rail Guide -- Train Web)