Union Station | ||||||||||||||||
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General information | ||||||||||||||||
Location | 300 South 18th Street St. Louis, Missouri | |||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 38°37′36″N90°12′25″W / 38.626621°N 90.206846°W | |||||||||||||||
Owned by | Bi-State Development | |||||||||||||||
Operated by | Metro Transit | |||||||||||||||
Platforms | 1 island platform | |||||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||
Construction | ||||||||||||||||
Structure type | Below-grade | |||||||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | |||||||||||||||
History | ||||||||||||||||
Opened | July 31, 1993 [1] | |||||||||||||||
Passengers | ||||||||||||||||
2018 | 1,142 daily | |||||||||||||||
Rank | 14 out of 38 | |||||||||||||||
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Union Station is a light rail station on the Red and Blue lines of the St. Louis MetroLink system. [2] This below-grade station is located partially within the former baggage tunnel beneath historic St. Louis Union Station near 18th Street at its intersection with Clark Avenue. [3]
The station is located at the east portal of the Union Station Tunnel. [4] Its platform is accessed via an elevator and staircase from the west within the Union Station train shed and a staircase on the east embankment.
G | Street level | Entrance/exit |
P Platform level | Westbound | ← Blue Line toward Shrewsbury (Grand) ← Red Line toward Lambert Airport (Grand) |
Island platform, doors will open on the left | ||
Eastbound | Red Line toward Shiloh–Scott (Civic Center) → Blue Line toward Fairview Heights (Civic Center) → |
In 2013, Metro's Arts in Transit program commissioned the work Spring Forth by Jim Gallucci for this station. The stainless steel sculpture depicts fantastical plant forms that leap and arch from the grassy embankment, celebrating the vitality that the MetroLink system brings to the St. Louis area. [5]
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