Terminal Station
26th St. and 5th Ave.
Opened 1909, replaced 1969
Number of station tracks: 10
Interlocked switches controlled from Second Avenue Tower
Louisville & Nashville Station
1819 Morris Ave.
Opened 1886
Number of station tracks: 10 through
Non interlocked crossing (SR) and flagman north of station at 27th St.
Interlocked switches south of station at 13th St.
Birmingham Terminal Station was demolished in 1969, replaced with a new modest station at 2617 7th Ave. N, for the remaining trains.
The Louisville & Nashville Station previously was Union Station, and was used by all railroads until 1909, when most railroads moved to the new Terminal Station.
(Terminal Station)
Departures
No. Name 1942 Dest. 1942 Time 1956 Time 1971 Time 2 Macon 8:00 10 Seminole Albany GA 4:35 9:00 am 52 City of Miami Miami 10:07 10:40 14 11:25 pmArrivals
No. Name 1942 Orig. 1942 Time 1956 Time 1971 Time 53 City of Miami Miami 7:18 4:55 13 3:10 am 9 Seminole Albany GA 11:30 6:10 pm 1 Macon 8:05Passenger service discontinued in 1971 with the creation of Amtrak, last train was the City of Miami.
(Terminal Station)
Departures
No. Name 1942 Dest. 1942 Time 1956 Time 1971 Time 52 City of Miami Chicago 7:28 am 5:15 am 3:40 am 10 Seminole Chicago 11:55 am 6:45 pmArrivals
No. Name 1942 Orig. 1942 Time 1956 Time 1971 Time 9 Seminole Chicago 4:20 pm 8:35 am 53 City of Miami Chicago 9:57 pm 10:15 pm 11:05 pmPassenger service discontinued in 1971 with the creation of Amtrak, last train was the City of Miami.
(Terminal Station)
Departures
No. Name 1942 Dest. 1942 Time 1956 Time 1971 Time 106 KC Florida Special Kansas City 12:15 12:05 108 Sunnyland Springfield 10:25 9:45Arrivals
No. Name 1942 Orig. 1942 Time 1956 Time 1971 Time 107 Sunnyland Springfield 7:15 7:00 105 KC Florida Special Kansas City 1:30 4:25Passenger service discontinued in 1967.
(Terminal Station)
Departures
No. Name 1942 Dest. 1942 Time 1956 Time 1971 Time 6 Robert E. Lee Washington 8:00 7:40 10 Cotton States Spec. Washington 1:50 34 1:40Arrivals
No. Name 1942 Orig. 1942 Time 1956 Time 1971 Time 9 Cotton States Spec. Washington 11:20 33 10:35 5 Robert E. Lee Washington 8:35 8:25Passenger service discontinued in 1969, last train was the Silver Comet.
Trains 33-34, the Silver Comet, replaced the Cotton States Special in 1947.
(Terminal Station)
Departures
No. Name 1942 Dest. 1942 Time 1956 Time 1971 Time 43 Queen And Crescent New Orleans 7:20 11:15 40 Sunnyland Washington 7:30 30 7:25 42 Pelican Washington 7:30 7:30 19 Goldenrod Mobile 11:00 9:40 47 Southerner New Orleans 1:00 1:15 1 1:00 pm 8 KC Florida Special Jacksonville 2:15 4:40 48 Southerner New York 3:20 3:20 2 1:55 pm 18 Birmingham Special Washington 3:30 4:15 11 Columbus MS 4:00 44 Queen And Crescent Cincinnati 7:15 41 Pelican New Orleans 9:30 8:25 12 Atlanta 11:30 10:30Arrivals
No. Name 1942 Orig. 1942 Time 1956 Time 1971 Time 11 Atlanta 5:30 5:50 42 Pelican New Orleans 7:00 7:05 43 Queen And Crescent Cincinnati 7:00 16 Columbus MS 10:30 7 KC Florida Special Jacksonville 11:55 11:15 17 Birmingham Special Washington 12:10 9:30 47 Southerner New York 12:55 1:05 1 12:45 pm 20 Goldenrod Mobile 2:50 2:35 48 Southerner New Orleans 3:15 3:05 2 1:40 pm 44 Queen And Crescent New Orleans 7:00 1:50 41 Pelican Washington 8:45 7:55 39 Sunnyland Washington 8:50 29 8:00Southern Railway initially did not join Amtrak, and was required to continue operation of its remaining trains beyond 1971.
(Louisville & Nashville Station)
Departures
No. Name 1942 Dest. 1942 Time 1956 Time 1971 Time 5 Humming Bird New Orleans 6:05 98 Pan American Cincinnati 7:35 8:15 8 4:35 am 1 Azalean New Orleans 7:55 7:45 16 South Wind Chicago 8:12 5:27 46 Calera 8:25 2 Cincinnati 12:10 11:10 3 Pensacola 3:00 4:10 6 Humming Bird Cincinnati 7:30 99 Pan American New Orleans 8:40 8:20 9 11:30 pm 4 Azalean Cincinnati 9:15 8:55 15 South Wind Miami 9:18 10:17 8 Cincinnati 11:30Arrivals
No. Name 1942 Orig. 1942 Time 1956 Time 1971 Time 5 Humming Bird Cincinnati 5:55 7 Cincinnati 6:00 98 Pan American New Orleans 7:15 7:55 8 4:15 am 1 Azalean Cincinnati 7:35 7:20 16 South Wind Miami 8:05 5:20 2 Pensacola 11:50 10:50 3 Cincinnati 2:40 3:50 47 Calera 5:05 6 Humming Bird New Orleans 7:20 99 Pan American Cincinnati 8:15 7:55 9 11:15 pm 4 Azalean New Orleans 8:50 8:30 15 South Wind Chicago 9:11 10:10Passenger service initially retained by Amtrak in 1971, with the South Wind, which in its final years of independent operation had been combined with the Pan American.
(Eleventh Street Station)
Departures
No. Name 1942 Dest. 1942 Time 1956 Time 1971 Time 23 Manchester 3:15 pmArrivals
No. Name 1942 Orig. 1942 Time 1956 Time 1971 Time 22 Manchester 11:49 amPassenger service discontinued in 1954.
Previously used Louisville & Nashville Station until a grade separation project in the early 1930's.
The Louisville & Nashville Station previously was Union Station. The older station was replaced with a modern facility in 1960. The Louisville & Nashville and the Southern Railway lines actually paralleled each other at that location. And after Amtrak assumed responsibility of Southern Railway's passenger trains in 1979, it was convenient for those trains to be consolidated into the Louisville & Nashville station.
In 2018, the station was rebuilt at the same location as part of a new Intermodal Terminal, also serving Greyhound and local transit buses.
Birmingham Rails
Birmingham Terminal Station-Wikipedia
Links to Web pages containing further information on the historic stations.