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Memphis Union Station | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Line(s) | Missouri Pacific Railroad, St. Louis Southwestern Railway, Louisville and Nashville Railroad, Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway, Southern Railway | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | 1902 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Closed | 1969 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1969 | demolished | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Memphis Union Station was a passenger terminal in Memphis, Tennessee. It served as a hub between railroads of the Southwest, the Missouri Pacific Railroad and the St. Louis Southwestern Railway, and railroads of the Southeast, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway and the Southern Railway. The terminal, completed in 1912, was built in the Beaux-Arts style and was located on Calhoun Street, between south Second Street and Rayburn Boulevard (now south Third Street). It was demolished in 1969. This location in south Memphis was approximately two blocks east of the other major Memphis railroad terminal, Memphis Grand Central Station.