Station is the grand ceremonial train station designed to be the entrance to Washington, DC when it opened in 1907.
It is one of the busiest and best-known places in of Washington DC, visited by 20 million people each year. The terminal is served by Amtrak, commuter railroads, and the Washington Metro transit system.
The station reopened in its present form in 1988 with shops and an AMC movie theater occupying the original building, with a large food court on the lower level, and a new Amtrak terminal at the back. In 1994, the passenger concourse was renamed to honor retired Amtrak president W. Gram Clayton Jr. of Roanoke, Virginia, who served for 11 years, from 1982 until 1993.
Today Union Station is again one of Washington's busiest and best-known places, visited by 20 million people each year. The terminal is located at the southern end of the Northeast Corridor, an electrified rail line extending north through major cities to Boston, Massachusetts.
Amtrak owns and maintains the building and its main headquarters are located here.
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