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Richmond's Main Street Station in the downtown area was built in 1901 by the Seaboard Air Line Railroad (SAL) and the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O). Seaboard had introduced service to Richmond, and C&O had consolidated the former Virginia Central Railroad and the Richmond and Allegheny Railroad, which had previously maintained separate stations.
Broad Street Station (originally Union Station) was a union railroad station in Richmond, Virginia, United States, across Broad Street from the Fan district. The building is now used by the Science Museum of Virginia .
Richmond and Petersburg Railroad: ACL: 1836 1898 Atlantic Coast Line Railroad: Richmond, Petersburg and Carolina Railroad: SAL: 1892 1900 Seaboard Air Line Railway: Richmond Terminal Railway: ACL/ RF&P: 1916 1976 N/A Richmond and York River Railroad: SOU: 1853 1873 Richmond, York River and Chesapeake Railroad: Richmond, York River and ...
Previously, the Southern had operated its Richmond passenger service out of an old Richmond and Danville Railroad wooden frame depot that laid about 600 feet south of the 14th Street Depot. This depot had been constructed around 1865–1866 to replace the one built in the early 1850s and burnt in the Fall of Richmond in April 1865.
The Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac and Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Connection was chartered March 3, 1866, and opened May 1, 1867, as a connection between the RF&P and the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad (later part of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad) west of downtown Richmond. It was operated jointly by those two companies.
Hull Street Station was a railroad station in the city of Richmond, Virginia. It was built by the Southern Railway to replace Mill Street Station across the river in Richmond. The station, which had been closed, was damaged in several floods of the James River before Richmond's flood wall was completed in 1995. Since 2011, it has been the site ...
The Richmond area has two railroad stations served by Amtrak. Each station receives regular service from north of Richmond from Washington, DC , Philadelphia , and New York . The suburban Staples Mill Road Station is located on a major north–south freight line and receives all service to and from all points south including, Raleigh , Durham ...
The district encompasses 22 contributing buildings the icon of which is the Daniel Burnham-designed Pennsylvania Railroad Station, completed in 1902.It developed between about 1853 and 1915 and includes representative examples of Italianate, Classical Revival, and Chicago School style architecture.