Eastern Railroad Discussion > A few photos at Birmingham, AL

Three eastbound CSX at Birmingham, AL -
 4/3/2019

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1. Amtrak train 19 arriving Birmingham, AL
2. Southbound NS passing the station.
3. Amtrak train 20 arriving the station.  4/3/2019

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I am not familiar with the area.  
Is this a site of an old passenger station?  The platforms and sheds look like some remnant of the past.
Currently the Amtrak station, or is that somewhere else?
Have quickly viewed this from the interstate as I drive past, so would like to have a better understanding.
Thanks,
Tony Marchiando

Here is Amtrak station in Birmingham, Alabama.
Platform is still original along tracks, but new station along street.

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The vicinity was originally L&N's 1877 station, before the RRs were elevated through downtown Birmingham in the 1930s. During the elevation project, L&N built new platforms connected to the old station to replace the 1877 trainshed. In 1960 L&N opened a new station, using the same platforms. Then Amtrak occupied the new multi-modal station, using one of the 1933 platforms. The other platform still stands, with its tracks disconnected; it had been an HFCS transloading site in the 1970s and 1980s.

Full explanation: http://www.bhamrails.info/Downtown_Trains/Grade_Separation/Grade_Separation_Hist_05.htm



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/07/19 12:26 by ctillnc.

I went to/from Birmingham about 50 years ago.  Arrived on Seaboard (can't recall if still SAL or SCL at that time) and departed on Southern Rwy.  Station looked completely different: kind of a baroque architecture with a dome.  Would that have been a "Union" station?

Nice pics Bruce, what are you doing in Birmingham? Are you on another vacation? And don't forget  the mountains are beautiful this time of the year and no 10 below temps.

Ed

Terminal Station was the true "Union" station.  It served the Central of Georgia, Frisco, IC, Southern, and Seaboard.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/07/19 15:55 by SOUCF25.

Terminal Station was a mile from the L&N station. The AB&A/AB&C/ACL used the L&N station until the 1930s.

Any interior pics of this new station?

The L&N station was called true Union Station and the other station was know as 'The Terminal Station".

Paul B
Canton, GA

Amtrak Ticket office area inside Birmingham station.

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Thanks for posting these photos.

Are there other transportation providers using the Amtrak station such as the transit system Birmingham?
 

The station is also used by Greyhound and also the local transit bus too.

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NS4271 Wrote:
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> The station is also used by Greyhound and also the
> local transit bus too.

Thanks for your reply.