Union Station (Portland, Maine)
Union Station was a train station in Portland, Maine.
The building was opened on June 25, 1888, serving trains of the Boston and Maine, Maine Central and Portland and Ogdensburg railroads. Designed by Boston architects Bradlee, Winslow & Wetherell, it was inspired by the designs of medieval French châteaux. It was a primarily granite building, with a clock tower. Despite its 'union station' name, the Grand Trunk Railway used a different station two miles away.
The Maine Central ended passenger rail service to the station in September 1960, and it closed on October 30 when the Boston and Maine moved its remaining trains out of the facility. On August 31, 1961, the train station was demolished, and a strip mall built on the property. Nevertheless, the Boston and Maine continued multiple daily trains from Portland itself to Boston until 1965.Passenger trains
Noteworthy trains into the 1950s and in some cases to 1960:
- Boston and Maine:
- *East Wind
- *State of Maine
- Boston and Maine and Maine Central Railroad
- *Bar Harbor Express :
- *Flying Yankee
- *Gull
- *Penobscot
- *Pine Tree
- Maine Central Railroad:
- *unnamed trains to Bangor via Lewiston, to Bangor via Augusta, to Rockland, to Calais via Ellsworth, to Farmington, to Montreal via North Conway
