Portland Transportation Center is a bus and train station in
Portland, Maine
Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maine and the seat of Cumberland County. Portland's population was 68,408 in April 2020. The Greater Portland metropolitan area is home to over half a million people, the 104th-largest metro ...
, United States, served and run primarily by
Concord Coach Lines (18 round-trips a day) and
Amtrak
The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak () , is the national passenger railroad company of the United States. It operates inter-city rail service in 46 of the 48 contiguous U.S. States and nine cities in Canada ...
''
Downeaster'' passenger trains (five round-trips a day). It is also served by
Megabus (via Concord Coach Lines), as well as the
Greater Portland Metro Bus Route 1 BREEZ express bus service to
Brunswick, Maine. The station is open from 4:30 AM to 12:15 AM and from 2:45 AM to 3:15 AM.
Portland Transportation Center is located in Portland's Libbytown neighborhood,
about a half mile west of the former site of
Portland Union Station. It is located next to
Pan Am Railways' Mountain Branch, formerly the
Mountain Division
The Mountain Division (later the Mountain Subdivision) is a railroad line that was once owned and operated by the Maine Central Railroad (MEC). It stretches from Portland, Maine on the Atlantic Ocean, through the Western Maine Mountains and W ...
of the
Maine Central Railroad. In 2019, the NNERPA Board (which governs the ''Downeaster'' service) supported a proposal to relocate the station to the mainline to avoid time-consuming backup moves. A two-year study by the
Maine Department of Transportation endorsed moving Amtrak service from this station to a location near that of Portland's original
Union Station, on St. John's Street.
See also
*
Union Station (Portland, Maine)
References
External links
Portland Amtrak Station & Transportation Center (USA Rail Guide -- Train Web)
Amtrak stations in Maine
Transit centers in the United States
Stations along Boston and Maine Railroad lines
Railway stations in the United States opened in 2001
Bus stations in Maine
Transportation in Portland, Maine
Transportation buildings and structures in Cumberland County, Maine
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