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 metropo ...

, United States, served and run primarily by

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(18 round-trips a day) and

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'' Downeaster'' passenger trains (five round-trips a day). It is also served by

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(via Concord Coach Lines), as well as the

Greater Portland Metro Bus The Greater Portland METRO is a regional public transportation system in Southern Maine. Operated by the Greater Portland Transit District, a transit district comprising Portland, Westbrook, Falmouth, Yarmouth, Freeport, and Brunswick, ...

Route 1 BREEZ express bus service to

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. 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 Portland Union Station is a train station in Portland, Oregon, United States, situated near the western shore of the Willamette River in Old Town Chinatown. It serves as an intermediate stop for Amtrak's '' Cascades'' and ''Coast Starlight'' ro ...

. It is located next to

Pan Am Railways Pan Am Railways, Inc. (PAR) is a subsidiary of CSX Corporation that operates Class II regional railroads covering northern New England from Mattawamkeag, Maine, to Rotterdam Junction, New York. Pan Am Railways is primarily made up of former Cla ...

' 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 Whi ...

of the

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. 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

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endorsed moving Amtrak service from this station to a location near that of Portland's original

Union Station A union station (also known as a union terminal, a joint station in Europe, and a joint-use station in Japan) is a railway station at which the tracks and facilities are shared by two or more separate railway companies, allowing passengers to ...

, on St. John's Street.

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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 {{Maine-railstation-stub

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