| Style: | MetroLink (St. Louis) | ||||||||||
| Union Station | |||||||||||
| Address: | 300 South 18th Street | ||||||||||
| Borough: | St. Louis, Missouri | ||||||||||
| Coordinates: | 38.6266°N -90.2068°W | ||||||||||
| Owned: | Bi-State Development | ||||||||||
| Operator: | Metro Transit | ||||||||||
| Platform: | 1 island platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks: | 2 | ||||||||||
| Structure: | Below-grade | ||||||||||
| Accessible: | Yes | ||||||||||
| Opened: | [1] | ||||||||||
| Pass Year: | 2018 | ||||||||||
| Passengers: | 1,142 daily | ||||||||||
| Pass Rank: | 14 out of 38 | ||||||||||
| Mapframe: | yes | ||||||||||
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Union Station is a light rail station on the Red and Blue lines of the St. Louis MetroLink system.[2] This below-grade station is located partially within the former baggage tunnel beneath historic St. Louis Union Station near 18th Street at its intersection with Clark Avenue.[3]
The station is located at the east portal of the Union Station Tunnel.[4] Its platform is accessed via an elevator and staircase from the west within the Union Station train shed and a staircase on the east embankment.
| G | Street level | Entrance/exit |
| P Platform level | Westbound | ← toward ← toward |
| Eastbound | toward → toward → |
In 2013, Metro's Arts in Transit program commissioned the work Spring Forth by Jim Gallucci for this station. The stainless steel sculpture depicts fantastical plant forms that leap and arch from the grassy embankment, celebrating the vitality that the MetroLink system brings to the St. Louis area.[5]