Alliance station

Alliance is an Amtrak train station in Alliance, Ohio, United States. Located at 820 East Main Street, the station consists of an uncovered platform on the south side of the east-west tracks, with a shelter and a small parking lot nearby.

Alliance, OH
The station at Alliance, after the rebuild, in July 2013.
Location820 East Main Street, Alliance, Ohio
Coordinates40.9213°N 81.0930°W / 40.9213; -81.0930
Owned byAmtrak
Line(s)Fort Wayne Line
Platforms1 side platform
Tracks2
ConnectionsStark Area Regional Transit Authority
Construction
Structure typeAt-grade
ParkingFree
Disabled accessYes
Other information
Station codeALC
History
OpenedOctober 11, 1990
ElectrifiedNo
Traffic
Passengers (2017)5,020[1]  3.3%
Services
Preceding station Amtrak Following station
Cleveland
toward Chicago
 Capitol Limited Pittsburgh
toward Washington, D.C.
Former services
Preceding station Pennsylvania Railroad Following station
Canton
toward Chicago
 Main Line Sebring
toward New York or Exchange Place
Canton
toward Toledo
 Toledo – Pittsburgh Salem
toward Pittsburgh
Preceding station Amtrak Following station
Cleveland
toward Chicago
 Pennsylvanian
1998–2003
 Pittsburgh
toward Philadelphia

Amtrak spent $1.5 million to improve the station in 2011. It built a new shelter and installed a 550 foot long concrete platform, signage and light poles. Developed by d+A Design+Architecture, LLC of Yardley, Pennsylvania, the shelter is composed primarily of rich red brick and has an enclosed, one-story waiting room with large windows. On the facades facing the street and the tracks, the waiting room is marked by stylized projecting bays faced with coursed ashlar stonework that adds texture to the overall elevation. The design is similar to the Okeechobee station (Florida), Connellsville station (Pennsylvania), and Winnemucca station (Nevada).[2]

Alliance is served by the Capitol Limited train from Washington to Chicago. Because the station consists of only one platform, westbound trains switch to the usual eastbound tracks to pass the station. Amtrak is the only way, other than by car or the Stark Area Regional Transit Authority (SARTA) bus from elsewhere in Stark County, Ohio, for travel to Alliance, the home of Mount Union College, as the city has neither commercial bus nor airline service.

The Pennsylvanian train served Alliance from 1998 to 2003.

The station serves the Ohio cities of Canton, Youngstown, and Akron, which are forty-minutes or more away by car.

Transit connections
The old platform photographed in 2002.

SARTA's Alliance Transit Center is located within walking distance of the station, which serves as a point of convergence for all routes that serve Alliance (Routes 130, 131, 135, 136, 139). However, the current early morning arrival times of the Capitol Limited make connecting to buses difficult. All SARTA service to Alliance ends three hours before the arrival of the Chicago-bound train and doesn't resume until three hours after the arrival of the Washington D.C.-bound train.

Station layout
No service ← No passenger service →
Westbound/Eastbound ←      Capitol Limited toward Chicago (Cleveland)
→      Capitol Limited toward Washington, DC (Pittsburgh) →
Side platform, doors will open on the left, right

References
  1. "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2017, State of Ohio" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2017. Retrieved May 3, 2018.
  2. "Alliance Station". Amtrak's Great American Stations. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
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