The Greensboro passenger station, now referred to as the J. Douglas Galyon Depot, reopened on October 1, 2005. The grand building was originally erected by the Southern Railway in 1927…
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The Hamlet depot, the only Victorian Queen Anne style station in North Carolina, was built in 1900 for the Seaboard Air Line Railroad as both a passenger station and division…
The High Point passenger depot is a brick and stone structure built in 1907 by the Southern Railway Company in the heart of downtown High Point. It was designed in…
At Winslow, Amtrak customers are welcome to wait in the lobby of the adjacent La Posada Hotel; the old depot has been restored and expanded to serve as the Route…
The modern Kannapolis station opened in December 2004, with a grand opening taking place February 23, 2005. This building replaced a temporary facility, which had in turn taken the place…
Passenger trains began serving Raleigh Union Station on July 10, 2018. Located in the city’s Warehouse District on the western edge of downtown and just two blocks from Nash Square,…
The Rocky Mount rail station was constructed in 1893 by the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad as a two-story brick Romanesque station with one-story wings. Since then, the station’s structure has…
The Tucson depot is today the pride of downtown. Originally designed in 1907 by Southern Pacific Railway (SP) staff architect Daniel Patterson and staff engineer J.D. Wallace, the original brick…
The brick and ceramic tile Salisbury station was designed by Frank P. Milburn for Southern Railway in the Spanish Mission style. It opened in 1908, becoming one of North Carolina’s…
Selma Union Depot was constructed in 1924 to serve the Atlantic Coast Line (ACL) Railroad and the Southern Railway (SR). Designed by architect A.M. Griffin, the masonry structure has a…
Amtrak established the Great American Stations Project in 2006 to educate communities on the benefits of redeveloping train stations, offer tools to community leaders to preserve their stations, and provide the appropriate Amtrak resources.
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