The Union Station in Raleigh, North Carolina was constructed in 1890 by the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad, a predecessor of the Seaboard Air Line, at the corner of Dawson and West Martin streets. It also served the original Norfolk Southern Railway and the Southern Railway, with a total of four tracks. Being a stub-end station, Union Station was inconvenient to operate. Seaboard built a new run-through station for itself in 1942, as did Southern in 1950 (now used by Amtrak). By that time, the original Norfolk Southern had discontinued its passenger trains.
The head-house of Union Station survives as an office building. The former platform area was redeveloped as industrial property.
On April 23, 2010 the city of Raleigh announced a plan to construct a new "Union Station" not far from the 1890 site. The facility would serve the Southeast High Speed Rail Corridor, conventional Amtrak trains, future Commuter rail over the North Carolina Railroad, Capital Area Transit (Raleigh), Triangle Transit, and Greyhound Lines.