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Originally Posted by vegeta_skyline
Man was 'Union Station' ever a popular name for central train stations.
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Unlike with airports which are generally common use, each railway generally used to operate their own station. It was therefore not uncommon for there to be multiple railway stations in a single city... a union station is simply a common name for a railway station that served more than one railway, although not every union station is actually known as such.
So for example in Winnipeg, the CP Station was simply called the CP Station, while the joint CNoR/NTR/GTP Station was the "Union Station".
Just to keep this vaguely on topic, here's a vintage photo of the CP Station, Winnipeg's "other" station. It's still around but it hasn't been used by passenger trains since 1978:
