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Other names | Meridian Multi-Modal Transportation Center Union Station | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location | 1901 Front Street Meridian, Mississippi United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 32°21′50″N 88°41′47″W / 32.3639°N 88.6964°W | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Owned by | City of Meridian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Line(s) | Alabama Great Southern Railway Meridian Speedway | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Platforms | 2 island platforms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tracks | 3 (2 in use) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Status | Unstaffed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Station code | Amtrak: MEI | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rebuilt | December 1997 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FY 2023 | 6,667[1] (Amtrak) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Union Station, also called the Meridian Multi-Modal Transportation Center, is an intermodal transportation center in Meridian, Mississippi. The station is located at 1901 Front Street in the Union Station Historic District within the larger Meridian Downtown Historic District, both of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Consisting of a new addition and renovated surviving wing of the 1906 building, Union Station was officially dedicated on December 11, 1997. It is a center of several modes of passenger transportation, including Amtrak train service on the Norfolk Southern rail corridor, Greyhound, and other providers of bus services.
Meeting rooms on the mezzanine level are designed for community activities, the existing east wing houses Meridian's economic development agency. Located beside the station, a former Railway Express Agency building has been renovated and adapted as the Meridian Railroad Museum, inviting patrons to learn more about Meridian's railroading history.[2][3]