Stadium | ||||||||||||||||
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| General information | ||||||||||||||||
| Location | 400 South 8th Street St. Louis, Missouri | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 38°37′25″N 90°11′41″W / 38.623475°N 90.194615°W | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Bi-State Development | |||||||||||||||
| Operated by | Metro Transit | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Below-grade | |||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | |||||||||||||||
| History | ||||||||||||||||
| Opened | July 31, 1993[1] | |||||||||||||||
| Previous names | Busch Stadium | |||||||||||||||
| Passengers | ||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | 1,180 daily | |||||||||||||||
| Rank | 13 out of 38 | |||||||||||||||
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Stadium station is a light rail station on the Red and Blue lines of the St. Louis MetroLink system.[2] This below-grade station is located alongside 8th Street between Spruce Street and Clark Avenue.
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Stadium sits at the west portal of the historic Downtown Tunnel, constructed in 1874 to carry trains between the Eads Bridge and the Mill Creek Valley rail yards.[3] The tunnel closed after a final Amtrak train passed through in 1974. Rehabilitation began in 1991 in preparation for the opening of MetroLink in 1993, which now uses the tunnel to connect communities in Illinois and Missouri via downtown St. Louis.[4]
- ^ Lindecke, Fred W. (August 1, 1993). "Area Riders Throng to Try MetroLink". The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. pp. 1A, 6A. Retrieved April 15, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Stadium Station". metrostlouis.org. Retrieved September 12, 2022.
- ^ Primm, James, Neal (2010). Lion of the Valley, St. Louis, Missouri 1764–1980 (3rd ed.). United States: Missouri Historical Society Press. pp. 289–292. ISBN 978-1-883982-25-6.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "St. Louis Freight Tunnel". Bridgehunter.com. Retrieved September 12, 2022.
