Elyria station is an

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station in

Elyria, Ohio Elyria ( ) is a city in the Greater Cleveland metropolitan statistical area and the county seat of Lorain County, Ohio, United States, located at the forks of the Black River in Northeast Ohio 23 miles southwest of Cleveland. As of the 2020 cen ...

. Located at 410 East River Road, the building is a small

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-type shelter. Elyria is served by the '' Capitol Limited'' and '' Lake Shore Limited'' routes, both of which pass through Elyria in the middle of the night. Starting in 1998 the Chicago-Philadelphia Pennsylvanian stopped in Elyria until 2003 when the train reverted the original Pittsburgh-New York route. The former

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Station is in downtown Elyria. It was built in 1925 as a replacement for a former Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway depot, and has been purchased by the Lorain County government for use as a transportation center. The building had been used for many years as a beauty school since it was sold by

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. The county hopes to use the building again for Amtrak trains. On August 1, 2013 it was announced that Amtrak has offered to pay 2.9 million dollars towards the project in hopes of relocating its passenger service there. On October 25, 2013, the station building caught fire, causing an estimated $25,000 in damage and closing the station building indefinitely, with passenger access limited to the platform.

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Elyria Landmarks

{{Amtrak Ohio stations Amtrak stations in Ohio Chicago Line (Norfolk Southern) Buildings and structures in Lorain County, Ohio Elyria, Ohio Transportation in Lorain County, Ohio Railway stations in the United States opened in 1975