Union Station (Burlington, Vermont)
Burlington Union Station is a train station and office building located in downtown Burlington, Vermont, United States. It is the northern terminal of the Amtrak Ethan Allen Express service. A single side platform on the west side of the station serves Vermont Railway excursion trains and Amtrak trains. The symmetrical Beaux Arts building, built of buff brick with limestone and granite trim, has a central pilaster over two entrances. The main building is divided for use by a variety of tenants.
View of Union Station from Main Street in July 2022
Detail of the station's center section
The 1867-built station around 1910
Union Station, c. 1920
The Ethan Allen Express is a daily passenger train operated by Amtrak in the United States between New York City and Burlington, Vermont, via Albany, New York. One daily round trip is operated on a 310-mile (500 km) north–south route with a 7-hour 35 minute scheduled running time. The train is subsidized by New York and Vermont for the portion north of Albany. It is named for Vermont cofounder and American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen.
The Ethan Allen Express departing Burlington in July 2022
The former station in Rutland, served by the Rutland Railway until 1953
The Ethan Allen Express at Rutland in 2001
Castleton station (pictured) replaced Fair Haven station in January 2010