Stadium station (MetroLink)

Stadium
Stadium
	Stadium station platforms seen from above
General information
Location	400 South 8th Street; St. Louis, Missouri
Coordinates	38°37′25″N 90°11′41″W / 38.623475°N 90.194615°W
Owned by	Bi-State Development
Operated by	Metro Transit
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Below-grade
Accessible	Yes
History
Opened	July 31, 1993
Previous names	Busch Stadium
Passengers
2018	1,180 daily
Rank	13 out of 38
Services
Location
Location

Stadium station is a light rail station on the Red and Blue lines of the St. Louis MetroLink system.^[2] This below-grade station is located alongside 8th Street between Spruce Street and Clark Avenue.

Stadium sits at the west portal of the historic Downtown Tunnel, constructed in 1874 to carry trains between the Eads Bridge and the Mill Creek Valley rail yards.^[3] The tunnel closed after a final Amtrak train passed through in 1974. Rehabilitation began in 1991 in preparation for the opening of MetroLink in 1993, which now uses the tunnel to connect communities in Illinois and Missouri via downtown St. Louis.^[4]

Station layout

Both platforms are connected to Clark Avenue with accessible ramps or stairs. There are also stairs connecting the platforms to Spruce Street.

G	Street level	Entrance/exit
P Platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Westbound	← Blue Line toward Shrewsbury (Civic Center) ← Red Line toward Lambert Airport (Civic Center)
	Eastbound	← Red Line toward Shiloh–Scott (8th & Pine) → ← Blue Line toward Fairview Heights (8th & Pine) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right

Public artwork

In 2013, Metro's Arts in Transit program commissioned the work Out of the Park by Andrews/LeFevre Studios for this station. The anodized aluminum sculpture is a dynamic abstraction of a baseball being hit “out of the park” and echoes the shape and proportions of the Gateway Arch.^[5]

Notable places nearby

Ballpark Village
Busch Stadium, home of the St. Louis Cardinals
Field House Museum
Thomas F. Eagleton United States Courthouse

References

^ Lindecke, Fred W. (August 1, 1993). "Area Riders Throng to Try MetroLink". The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. pp. 1A, 6A. Retrieved April 15, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Stadium Station". metrostlouis.org. Retrieved September 12, 2022.
^ Primm, James, Neal (2010). Lion of the Valley, St. Louis, Missouri 1764–1980 (3rd ed.). United States: Missouri Historical Society Press. pp. 289–292. ISBN 978-1-883982-25-6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ "St. Louis Freight Tunnel". Bridgehunter.com. Retrieved September 12, 2022.
^ "Out of the Park". Arts in Transit, Inc. Retrieved October 3, 2022.