Broad Street Station (Richmond)

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Broad Street Station
Former Atlantic Coast Line and Amtrak station
Richmond Science Museum.jpg
General information
Location2500 West Broad Street
Richmond, Virginia 23220 [1]
Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Coordinates 37°33′40″N77°27′57″W / 37.561111°N 77.465833°W / 37.561111; -77.465833
Tracks3 (remaining)
8 (old)
History
Opened1917
Closed1975 (for passenger rail service)
Former services
Preceding station BSicon LOGO Amtrak2.svg Amtrak Following station
Petersburg Champion Alexandria
toward New York
Jacksonville
toward Miami
Silver Meteor
Petersburg
toward Miami
Silver Star Fredericksburg
toward New York
Preceding station Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Following station
Centralia
toward Tampa
Main Line Terminus
Preceding station Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Following station
TerminusMain Line Acca
Broad Street Station
Architect John Russell Pope
NRHP reference No. 72001518 [2]
VLR No.127-0226
Significant dates
Added to NRHPFebruary 23, 1972
Designated VLRNovember 16, 1971 [3]

Broad Street Station (originally Union Station) was a union railroad station in Richmond, Virginia, United States, across Broad Street from the Fan district. The building is now used by the Science Museum of Virginia.

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History

The Silver Comet, and The Silver Star at left at Broad Street Station on March 9, 1969 RF&P 1013 with Trains 34, The Silver Comet, and Train 22, The Silver Star at left at Broad Street Station, Richmond, VA on March 9. 1969 (25031006304).jpg
The Silver Comet, and The Silver Star at left at Broad Street Station on March 9, 1969
Map of Broad Street Station in 1934 USGS map of Richmond, Virginia in 1934 (crop showing Broad Street Station).jpg
Map of Broad Street Station in 1934

It was built as the southern terminus for the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad (RF&P) in 1917 in the neoclassical style by the architect John Russell Pope.[ citation needed ] The station also served the trains of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (ACL) and Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W). Eventually, the Seaboard Air Line Railroad (SAL), which had formerly used Richmond's other union station, Main Street Station, switched to Broad Street Station.[ citation needed ]

At Amtrak's inception in 1971, it was served by the Champion , Silver Meteor , and Silver Star (all inherited from the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad, successor to ACL and SAL). [4] . It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 23, 1972.

Passenger service to the station ceased in 1975, when Amtrak consolidated all Richmond-area service at a suburban station on Staples Mill Road, north of downtown.[ citation needed ] By 1976, Broad Street Station became the new home of the Science Museum of Virginia, which remains in the substantially remodeled and expanded building.[ citation needed ]

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