Peachtree Station

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Atlanta

Atlanta Amtrak Station

Station statistics

Address

1688 Peachtree Street NW
Atlanta, GA

Lines

Crescent

Parking

Yes; paid

Baggage check

Yes

Other information

Opened

1918

Accessible

Code

ATL

Traffic

Passengers (2007)

97,594 ▲ 0.7%

Services

Preceding station		Amtrak		Following station
Anniston toward New Orleans		Crescent		Gainesville toward New York

The Atlanta Amtrak Station, located in Atlanta, Georgia, is served by the Crescent passenger train. The street address is 1688 Peachtree Street, in the Brookwood Hills section of town between Buckhead and Midtown.

Designed by architect Neel Reid, it was built in 1908 as a commuter stop on the northside of town for the Southern Railway whose main stop was Terminal Station downtown. The new station was formally named Peachtree Station by Southern, but informally it was widely referred to as Brookwood Station. Terminal Station closed in 1971, at which time Peachtree Station became the only passenger station in Atlanta still open. Amtrak took over the Crescent from Southern in 1979 and became the station's tenant.

Amtrak passengers often note that the station is small and is elevated far above the tracks, requiring use of a long stairway or elevator. This design reflects the original intent of the station as a suburban stop and the much smaller size of Atlanta at the turn of the 20th century.

Although there have been proposals for a new Amtrak station in downtown (the Atlanta Multimodal Passenger Terminal near Five Points), no final plan has ever been agreed to.