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.
Location	820 East Main Street, Alliance, Ohio
Coordinates	40.9213°N 81.0930°W / 40.9213; -81.0930
Owned by	Amtrak
Line(s)	Fort Wayne Line
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	2
Connections	Stark Area Regional Transit Authority
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Parking	Free
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Station code	ALC
History
Opened	October 11, 1990
Electrified	No
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.

External links

• Alliance, OH – Amtrak
• Alliance Amtrak Station (USA Rail Guide -- Train Web)
• Alliance, OH (ALC) (Amtrak's Great American Stations)