Jacksonville

Jacksonville Amtrak station is a passenger train station in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. It is served by Amtrak's Silver Meteor, Silver Star, and Thruway Motorcoach to Lakeland. The station lies next door to a freight facility with its own platform and is also just east of Norfolk Southern's Simpson Yard. Of the eighteen Florida stations served by Amtrak, Jacksonville was the fifth-busiest in FY2011, boarding or detraining an average of approximately 205 passengers daily. Amtrak's Clifford Lane facility has been in operation since 1974, when it replaced the downtown Union Terminal. Two other services once used this station, the Palmetto and Sunset Limited. In 2004 the Palmetto's route was shortened to end in Savannah, GA and in...