Orlando Health/Amtrak station
railway station in Orlando, Florida
Orlando Health/Amtrak station, also known as Orlando station, is a train station in Orlando, Florida. It is served by Amtrak, the national railroad passenger system of the United States, and SunRail, the commuter rail service of Greater Orlando, as well as local and intercity buses. It serves Amtrak's Silver Meteor and Floridian lines. Built in 1926, the historic station is located in Downtown Orlando approximately one mile south of the central business district, near the campus of Orlando Health. Serving 160,442 passengers at last measure in 2013, The station is Amtrak's fifth busiest in the Southeastern United States; it is the second busiest Amtrak station in Florida, behind the Sanford station of the Auto Train.
History
The station was built in 1926 by A.M. Griffin and W. T. Hadlow for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (ACL). The building was designed in the Spanish Mission style. It became part of the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad after the Coast line merged with the Seaboard Air Line Railroad in 1967.
Service in peak years
Prior to the decline in operations in the 1950s and 1960s several long distance trains operated by the ACL ran through the station.
Champion (West Coast) New York – Sarasota
Havana Special New York and the train's Sarasota section
Shuttle sections that fed off these trains in Jacksonville, to points south.
The public source identifies “Orlando Health/Amtrak station” as railway station in Orlando, Florida. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Orlando, Health and Amtrak.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7103029. Authority coordinates are 28.526, -81.381. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1926, 2013 and 1967.
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