Painesville station
Painesville | |||||||||||
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Painesville station in 2018 | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | 475 Railroad Street Painesville, Ohio United States | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°44′00.2″N 81°14′37.0″W / 41.733389°N 81.243611°W | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Western Reserve Railroad Association | ||||||||||
| Line | CSX Erie West Subdivision | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | At-grade | ||||||||||
| Architect | Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge | ||||||||||
| Architectural style | Richardsonian Romanesque | ||||||||||
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| Website | www | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | February 2, 1893 | ||||||||||
| Closed | May 1, 1971 | ||||||||||
| Original company | Lake Shore and Michigan Southern | ||||||||||
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Painesville station is a former train station in the city of Painesville in Lake County, Ohio. The station was completed in 1893 for the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway to replace an older depot built by the predecessor to the Lake Shore, the Cleveland, Painesville and Ashtabula Railroad. After merging with the Lake Shore in 1914, the New York Central Railroad operated passenger rail service from the Painesville station until 1968, when it was succeeded by the Penn Central. Rail service ceased altogether in 1971 when Amtrak took over intercity passenger rail in the U.S. The station was transferred in 1997 to the Western Reserve Railroad Association, which reopened the station in 2017 as the Painesville Railroad Museum.