Orlando Amtrak station completes $2.1 million facelift

Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer cut the ribbon to the new and improved Amtrak station about a mile south of downtown.

Originally built in 1926, the renovations included a new wheelchair ramp and increased connectivity with the SunRail station just down the road.

“SunRail is right next door and this is one of the more significant stations with all of the workforce and patients that visit Orlando Health every day,” Mayor Buddy Dyer said.

The city’s Historic Preservation board worked with the Florida Department of Transportation and set out to repair everything from cracked tiles and leaks, to upgrading the restrooms and restoring the original clay roof.

“It’s very historically acturate,” City Commissioner Patty Sheehan said, “doors and windows were repaired and non-original doors and windows were replaced with custom made, historically accurate ones.”

The station serves about 160,500 passengers each year.