Union Station is a St. Louis
MetroLink station. It is partially located underneath historic
St. Louis Union Station
St. Louis Union Station is a National Historic Landmark train station in St. Louis, Missouri. At its 1894 opening, the station was the largest in the world that had tracks and passenger service areas all on one level. Traffic peaked at 100,000 p ...
and primarily serves the
Downtown West area, including
CITYPARK Stadium and the St. Louis Aquarium. The station is located below 18th Street at its intersection with Clark Avenue near the St. Louis Post Office and utilizes the former baggage tunnel at Union Station.
In 2013, Metro's Arts in Transit program commissioned the work ''Spring Forth'' by Jim Gallucci for installation near the station. The stainless steel sculpture depicts fantastical plant forms that leap and arch from the grassy embankment, celebrating the vitality that the MetroLink system brings to the St. Louis
area.
Station layout
The platform is accessed via an elevator and staircase on the west end from the Union Station train shed and a staircase on the embankment on the east end.
References
External links
St. Louis MetroClark Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
MetroLink stations in St. Louis
Red Line (St. Louis MetroLink)
Blue Line (St. Louis MetroLink)
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1993
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