Amtrak & King Street-Old Town Metro stations (Alexandria VA)

            The Amtrak station in Alexandria, VA opened on September 15, 1905. The city of Alexandria commissioned the Washington Southern Railway Company (later part of the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac, now CSX) to build the Alexandria Union Station at a cost of $62,020.55. The station also served the Chesapeake & Ohio and Southern Railway trains. In 1971, ownership of the station was assumed by Amtrak and the rails by CSX Transportation. The City of Alexandria took ownership of the station in 2001. Today,  it is served by both Amtrak intercity (14 trains daily plus the tri-weekly Cardinal) and Virginia Railway Express commuter rail lines.

The station is a one-story brick building consisting of the original main passenger depot and baggage building separated by a 20-foot wide open gateway passage and covered by a covered terrace. The design is Federal Revival Style: a 20th century mixture of Neoclassical architecture borrowed from buildings constructed just after the American Revolution. Both original buildings are still in use. Though many minor renovations have taken place, including the slightly more extensive renovations that occurred in 1982 and the mid-1990s, the original buildings remain essentially unchanged. 

It is located directly across from the King Street – Old Town station of the Washington Metro; which opened in 1983. This is an island platform station that serves both the Blue and the Yellow lines. A recent expansion to the station added a second entrance and mezzanine across Commonwealth Avenue from the existing mezzanine, with the new entrance located on Cameron Street, across from the nearby Hilton Hotel. The expansion also included a new canopy over the north end of the platform, designed to match the original canopy.

Taken in: United States / Virginia / Alexandria / Shuter's Hill (show map)

Taken on: May 14, 2011

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Alexandria VA

5-14-2011

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