Union Station (Tampa)

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Tampa Union Station

Station statistics

Address

601 Nebraska Avenue
Tampa, FL 33602

Lines

Silver Star

Connections

Thruway Motorcoach
Hillsborough Area Regional Transit

Platforms

Other information

Opened

1912

Code

TPA

Traffic

Passengers (2007)

74,984 ▲ 23%

Services

Preceding station		Amtrak		Following station
Reverses direction		Silver Star		Lakeland toward New York
Reverses direction		Silver Star		Lakeland toward Miami

Tampa Union Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Location:	Tampa, Florida United States
Built/Founded:	1912
Architect:	J.F. Leitner
Architectural style(s):	Italian Renaissance Revival
Added to NRHP:	June 5, 1974

Tampa Union Station (TUS) is an historic depot in Tampa, Florida, United States. It is located at 601 North Nebraska Avenue(SR 45). Opened on May 15, 1912, by the Tampa Union Station Company, its original purpose was to combine passenger operations for the Atlantic Coast Line, the Seaboard Air Line and the Tampa Northern Railroad at a single site. On June 5, 1974, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. After its condition deteriorated substantially, Tampa Union Station was closed in 1984; Amtrak passengers used a temporary prefabricated station building located adjacent to the station platforms after the building was closed.

Tampa Union Station was acquired in 1991 by the non-profit Tampa Union Station Preservation & Redevelopment Corporation (TUSP&R) via a mortgage held by CSX, the freight railroad company which was the corporate descendant of its original railroad owners. TUSP&R raised over 4 million USD for the building's restoration through grants and loans from sources including the Florida Department of Transportation (ISTEA funds), the City of Tampa (grant funds) and the National Trust for Historic Preservation (no interest loan). At the completion of the restoration in 1998, the station reopened to Amtrak passengers and the public. CSX donated the station to the City of Tampa that same year.

Currently, it operates as an Amtrak station for the Silver Star line. It also provides Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach services to Orlando, Lakeland, Pinellas Park-St. Petersburg, Bradenton, Sarasota, Port Charlotte and Fort Myers.

1 Connections
2 Gallery
3 Bibliography
4 External links

[edit] Connections

Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach
Hillsborough Area Regional Transit; #2, #9, & #12.

[edit] Gallery

State historical information sign

One of the station entrance's

Freight train behind the station

[edit] Bibliography

McQuigg, Jackson. Tampa Union Station. Dover, NH: Arcadia Publishing, 1998.
- Hillsborough County listings at National Register of Historic Places
Florida's Office of Cultural and Historical Programs

[edit] External links

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