Poinciana station

Poinciana station
SunRail station
Coordinates 28°09′21″N 81°28′35″W / 28.155833°N 81.476389°WCoordinates: 28°09′21″N 81°28′35″W / 28.155833°N 81.476389°W
Line(s)

SunRail:

  SunRail
Phase 2 (2017)
Tracks 1
History
Opened September 16, 1974[1]
Closed December 8, 1975[2]
Rebuilt 2017 Planned
Services
  Future services  
Preceding station   SunRail   Following station
TerminusSunRail
Phase 2 (2017)
Kissimmee
toward DeLand

Poinciana station is a planned train station in the community of Poinciana, Florida. It is the planned southern terminus of the final phase of SunRail, the commuter rail service of Greater Orlando. The site was also used briefly by Amtrak from 1974 to 1975.

History

In the mid 1970s, the site was planned as the southern terminus for Amtrak's inaugural auto ferry service connecting Florida to Indianapolis Union Station, in competition with the Auto-Train Corporation's Auto Train. Amtrak initially built a complex with a 1,600 square foot modular building, two spurlines and a parking lot with plans for a 7,000 square foot facility. The initial complex opened on September 16, 1974 with the simultaneous arrival of the Floridian and the Champion trains. It was to be the official stop of tourists bound to Walt Disney World. The service however never came to life, and the station was used for just over a year as a stop for the Champion and the Floridian until December 1975, when those trains began stopping at Kissimmee instead.[1][2][3]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Amtrak Service Scheduled". Lakeland Ledger. 1974-09-14.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Amtrak Schedule Changes Dec 14". Waycross Journal-Herald. 1975-12-08.
  3. ↑ "Amtrak Will Build Million Dollar Passenger Facility At Poinciana". Lakeland Ledger. 1974-01-17.

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