Atlanta Terminal Station Terminal Station. View from Spring Street. (Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers Photographic Collection, 1920-1976, Special Collections Department, Georgia State University Library.) Opened in May 1905, Terminal Station served Southern Railway, Central of Georgia, and Atlanta & West Point. It closed in June 1970 and was demolished in 1972. The station and train shed were built for the Atlanta Terminal Company at a cost of $1.6 million. The architect for the project was P. Thornton Marye, who also designed Atlanta's Fox Theater. The train shed was torn down in 1925. The main terminal building was also altered by the removal of the upper belfry sections of its twin towers. Next door, at 99 Spring Street, was Southern Railway's Atlanta office building (still standing and still in use by Norfolk Southern Railway). The Richard B. Russell Federal Building now stands on Terminal Station's site. Terminal Station. View from high above Spring Street. (Tracy O'Neal Photographic Collection, 1923-1975, Special Collections Department, Georgia State University Library.) The bronze statue of Southern Railway's Samuel Spencer is visible in the corners of some of these images. Placed in front of the station in 1910, it was moved to Peachtree Station in 1970 when Terminal Station was demolished. The statue now stands near Peachtree Center.   Georgia's Railroad History & Heritage. Copyright, Steve Storey. Railroad History | The Depot List | Locomotives On Display | Odds & Ends | Sources & References | Home