Orlando (Amtrak station)

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Orlando
Amtrak station

Front entrance to the 1926-built Orlando Station. Originally used by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, now by Amtrak.

Station statistics

Address

1400 Sligh Boulevard
Orlando, Florida

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

Line(s)

Amtrak:

Silver Meteor

Silver Star

Connections

Thruway Motorcoach
Lynx bus #40

Platforms

1 side platform, 1 island platform

Tracks

Parking

Yes

Other information

Opened

1926

Accessible

Station code

ORL

Owned by

CSX

Traffic

Passengers (2012)

172,502^[1]

3.7%

Services

Preceding station	Amtrak	Following station
Kissimmee toward Miami	Silver Meteor	Winter Park toward New York City
Kissimmee toward Miami	Silver Star	Winter Park toward New York City
Terminus	Sunset Limited service suspended	Winter Park toward Los Angeles
	Future services
SunRail
Sand Lake Road Terminus	SunRail Phase 1 (2014)	Church Street toward DeBary
Sand Lake Road toward Poinciana	SunRail Phase 2 (2016)	Church Street toward DeLand
	Former services
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Pine Castle toward Tampa Union Station	Main Line	Winter Park toward Richmond Broad Street Station

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.^[2] 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).

As of February 2006, Thruway Motorcoach service is no longer provided by Coach USA to area hotels and attractions. Martz First Class Coach 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 was suspended indefinitely in August 2005.

Orlando station is a planned stop on the SunRail commuter rail system, which is planned to be operational in 2014. Additionally it is the proposed terminus on the proposed Orange Blossom Express commuter rail project out of Lake County. Plans to upgrade the station for SunRail service include a matching canopy for the second platform and a name change to "Orlando Health/Amtrak Station" due to its proximity to the main Orlando Health hospital campus, Orlando Regional Medical Center, the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children and the Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies.^[3]

Connections

Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach
LYNX bus (link) 40 - Public Bus System

References

↑ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2012, State of Florida" (PDF). Amtrak. December 2012. Retrieved 27 December 2012.
↑ Great American Stations. Accessed March 15, 2013.
↑ Orlando Health/Amtrak Station (SunRail)

External links

Part of the restored interior.

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