Union Station
Beaux-Arts railway terminal with a soaring vaulted hall of marble, tile and clerestory light.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Union Station in Toronto opens on August 6, 1927, when a young prince cut the ribbon and remarked that Toronto builds train stations like cathedrals. It traces the decade of construction that produced the vaulted hall's marble floors and clerestory windows, and reveals a stranger fact: when the doors opened, no trains could actually arrive, because a fight over track grade separation was still unresolved. You'll also hear about the station's brush with demolition in the 1970s, when it faced the same fate as New York's Penn Station.
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