Niagara Falls station (New York)

Niagara Falls, NY
The new station in July 2017
General information
Other names	Niagara Falls Station and Customhouse Interpretive Center
Location	825 Depot Avenue West Niagara Falls, New York United States
Coordinates	43°06′35″N 79°03′19″W / 43.10972°N 79.05528°W / 43.10972; -79.05528
Owned by	City of Niagara Falls
Line(s)	Empire Corridor (Niagara Subdivision)
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	2
Train operators	Amtrak / VIA Rail
Connections	NFTA: 52 North End Circulator Discover Niagara Shuttle: Falls to the Fort
Construction
Parking	Yes
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Station code	Amtrak: NFL CBP Code: NIA
History
Opened	December 6, 2016
Passengers
FY 2023	33,930[1] (Amtrak)
Services
Preceding station Amtrak Following station Terminus Empire Service Buffalo–Exchange Street toward New York Niagara Falls, Ontario toward Toronto Maple Leaf
Former services at Suspension Bridge station Preceding station New York Central Railroad Following station Niagara Falls, Ontario (MC) toward Chicago Michigan Central Railroad Main Line Niagara Falls, New York toward Buffalo Niagara Falls, New York Terminus Falls Road Sanborn toward Rochester Preceding station Canadian National Railway Following station Niagara Falls, Ontario toward Toronto Niagara Falls – Toronto Local stops Terminus Preceding station Lehigh Valley Railroad Following station Terminus Niagara Falls Branch Niagara Falls, New York toward Depew
U.S. Customhouse
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Customhouse in May 2018 after construction of the railroad station.
Location	2245 Whirlpool Street, Niagara Falls, New York
Area	less than one acre
Built	1863
NRHP reference No.	73001227[2]
Added to NRHP	July 16, 1973
Location

The Niagara Falls Station and Customhouse Interpretive Center is an intermodal transit complex in Niagara Falls, New York. It serves Amtrak trains and Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority buses, houses U.S. Customs and Border Protection offices servicing the Canada–United States border, and houses the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center.^[3][4]

It is the western terminus of Amtrak's Empire Corridor and serves two Empire Service trains in each direction (terminating westbound) and one Maple Leaf in each direction daily. The station also provides a connection to NFTA route 50 and the Discover Niagara Shuttle buses.

The facility consists of a complex built around the historic U.S. Customhouse, originally designed to service the U.S. side of the Niagara River border crossings from Canada. Completed in July 2016, the facility replaced Amtrak's former Niagara Falls station for passenger rail service on December 6, 2016.^[5]

From March 2020 to June 2022, Maple Leaf service west of the station was suspended indefinitely as part of a closure of the border to non-essential travel in response to the coronavirus pandemic, which made this station the western terminal of the route for that period.^[6][7]