Lexington Union Station

In 1901, the Chesapeake and Ohio, the Lexington and Eastern Railway and the Louisville and Nashville decided to build a station.

The L&N trains made a stop at the state's capital, Frankfort, on the route westward to Louisville Union Station.

L&N offered day and overnight trains traveling east to Winchester, then to Fleming in southeastern Kentucky.

[4][5] By the latter 1950s passenger traffic and high overhead costs led the tenant railroads to abandon the station.

The Louisville & Nashville operations were at a comparative disadvantage to the Southern Railway, which offered direct rail service to Cincinnati.

The Louisville & Nashville ended its last remaining passenger service from the station, its Lexington-Winchester-Hazard (shortened from its earlier Lexington-Fleming route) train between 1955 and 1956.