Union Station (Toronto)

Union Station is the main train station and also the main hub of public transport from Toronto. The station was opened on 6 August 1927 by Prince Edward of Wales, later King Edward VIII British and renovated in the 1970s. The current station building replaced a building dating back to 1858. Builder was the Railway Company Canadian National Railway. The main entrance is a neoclassical colonnade.

The Union Station is connected to the PATH underground pedestrian system of the city. A Skywalk connects the railway station with the CN Tower, the Rogers Centre and the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. A comprehensive modification of today's main railway station is planned for the years 2009 to 2014.

The station is located in the south of the city in the Front Street, between Bay Street and York Street in the Financial District. While the City of Toronto is the owner of the station building, are station concourse, platforms and railway tracks owned by GO Transit, the operator of the suburban railway network in the Greater Toronto Area. With up to 200,000 passengers a day and about 35 million a year, the Union forms the station 's busiest facilities in Canada.

Union Station is the center of the so-called Quebec City -Windsor Corridor, a 1150 km long, with over 17 million densely populated region of Canada, extending from Windsor and Sarnia to Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City eastward. Through the station provides intercity trains of the companies VIA Rail, Amtrak and Ontario Northland. In 1975 the station was declared a National Historic Site.

Under the Front Street in front of the station is the station on the Yonge- University Union - Spadina line of the Toronto Subway. She is also underground terminus of two lines of the tramway Toronto.