Stadium is a St. Louis MetroLink station.[2] This station serves Busch Stadium, home of the St. Louis Cardinals, Cupples Station, and Ballpark Village in downtown St. Louis, Missouri.
Stadium | ||||||||||||||||
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| MetroLink light rail station | ||||||||||||||||
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| General information | ||||||||||||||||
| Location | 400 South 8th Street St. Louis, Missouri 63102 | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 38°37′25″N 90°11′41″W / 38.623475°N 90.194615°WCoordinates: 38°37′25″N 90°11′41″W / 38.623475°N 90.194615°W | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Bi-State Development Agency | |||||||||||||||
| Operated by | Metro Transit | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Construction | ||||||||||||||||
| Structure type | Below-grade | |||||||||||||||
| Parking | No | |||||||||||||||
| Disabled access | Yes | |||||||||||||||
| History | ||||||||||||||||
| Opened | July 31, 1993[1] | |||||||||||||||
| Passengers | ||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | 1,180 daily | |||||||||||||||
| Rank | 13 out of 38 | |||||||||||||||
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The Stadium station sits at the west portal of the historic St. Louis Freight Tunnel. Constructed in 1874 to carry trains between the Eads Bridge and the Mill Creek Valley rail yards,[3] it saw its last train (Amtrak) in 1974. Refurbishment of the tunnels began in 1991 in preparation for the opening of MetroLink, which uses the original route to connect Illinois and Missouri via downtown St. Louis.[4]
In 2013, Metro's Arts in Transit program commissioned the work Out of the Park by Andrews/LeFevre Studios for installation in the station. The anodized aluminum sculpture is a dynamic abstraction of a baseball being hit “out of the park” and echoes the shape and proportions of the Gateway Arch.[5]
Station layoutEdit
Both platforms are accessed via a set of stairs from Spruce Street and a set of ramps from Clark Avenue. The westbound platform can also be accessed via a set of stairs from Clark Avenue.
| G | Street level | Entrance/exit and buses |
| P Platform level |
Side platform, doors will open on the right | |
| Westbound | ← Blue Line toward Shrewsbury – Lansdowne (Civic Center) ← Red Line toward Lambert Airport (Civic Center) | |
| Eastbound | Red Line toward Shiloh – Scott (8th & Pine) → Blue Line toward Fairview Heights (8th & Pine) → | |
| Side platform, doors will open on the right | ||
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Lindecke, Fred W. (August 1, 1993). "Area Riders Throng to Try MetroLink". The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. pp. 1A, 6A. Retrieved April 15, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Stadium Station". metrostlouis.org. Retrieved 2022-09-12.
- ^ Primm, James, Neal (2010). Lion of the Valley, St. Louis, Missouri 1764-1980 (3rd ed.). United States: Missouri Historical Society Press. pp. 289–292. ISBN 978-1-883982-25-6.
- ^ "St. Louis Freight Tunnel". Bridgehunter.com. Retrieved 2022-09-12.
- ^ "Out of the Park". Arts in Transit, Inc. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
External linksEdit
- St. Louis Metro
- Clark Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
- Spruce Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
- Stadium station satellite view
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