Grand Trunk Terminal - Portland, ME - Train Stations/Depots on Waymarking.com

County of terminal: Cumberland County
Location of terminal: One India Street, Portland
Dates of service: July 1853 to May 1989

"Portland businessmen led by John A. Poor believed rail connections with Boston threatened Portland's independent seaport. Poor promoted a separate system of Portland gauge railroads to funnel interior traffic to Portland in competition with the Standard gauge railroads bringing traffic into the port of Boston. Portland Company was organized in 1846 to build locomotives for the Atlantic & St. Lawrence Railroad (A&SL) (with trains from India Street in Portland to Yarmouth in 1848 and ultimately to Montreal in 1859).[2] Services to Auburn, Lewiston, and Waterville began in 1849 on lines of the original Maine Central (MEC) system that are now the (GRS) main line to Lewiston, Waterville and Bangor. The route to Brunswick opened in 1847 as a portion of the Kennebec & Portland Railroad which was subsequently subsumed by the MEC and GRS.

"Portland once boasted four passenger rail stations: Commercial Street and India Street (both on the waterfront), Preble Street on the north side, and Union Station to the west. In the early days, trains from the south on the PS&P terminated at Commercial Street south of Union Street while Grand Trunk trains from the north terminated on the waterfront at India Street. In 1873, when the B&M completed their line to Portland, their northern terminal (at 43°39'07?N 70°16'48?W) on Saint John Street was named Portland Union Station. With the growth of the B&M, the Commercial Street terminal lost its prominence in the 1870s, and was abandoned in 1894. The Preble Street terminal was constructed to serve the Portland & Rochester (P&R), which eventually became the Worcester, Nashua, and Portland division of the Boston & Maine. It was abandoned in 1900, after which P&R trains were routed to Union Station. By the time the Grand Trunk opened a new terminal on its India Street site in 1903, Portland was down to two passenger stations: the B&M/MEC Portland Union Station on Saint John’s Street, reconstructed in 1888, and the Grand Trunk Terminal on the waterfront at India Street." ~ Wikipedia

Is the station/depot currently used for railroad purposes?: No Is the station/depot open to the public?: Yes If the station/depot is not being used for railroad purposes, what is it currently used for?: Cannot find a definate answer, but reading lots of stuff, I believe this is still used as a ticket office for ferry/cruise ship of some kind. What rail lines does/did the station/depot serve?: Atlantic & St. Lawrence R.R.; St, Lawrence & Atlantic R.R.; Grand Trunk R.R.; Canadian National Railway Station/Depot Web Site: [Web Link]

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