Hamlet station explained

Style:

Amtrak

Hamlet, NC

Address:

2 West Main Street

Borough:

Hamlet, North Carolina

Country:

United States

Coordinates:

34.8838°N -79.6991°W

Line:

Hamlet Terminal Subdivision

Platform:

1 side platform

Tracks:

Parking:

Yes

Accessible:

Yes

Architectural Style:

Victorian Queen Anne

Opened:

1900

Rebuilt:

2002–2004

Original:

Seaboard Air Line Railroad

Status:

Unstaffed

Owned:

City of Hamlet

Other Services Header:

Former services

Other Services Collapsible:

yes

Nrhp:

Embed:	yes
Designation1:	NRHP
Designation1 Offname:	Seaboard Air Line Passenger Depot
Designation1 Date:	November 19, 1971
Designation1 Number:	71000617

Mapframe:

yes

Hamlet station is an Amtrak train station in Hamlet, North Carolina, United States, served by the daily . The station, built in 1900 is listed on the National Register of Historic Places individually and as part of the Main Street Commercial Historic District.

History

Hamlet Station was originally built in 1900 by the Seaboard Air Line Railroad as both a passenger station and a division headquarters.^[1] In addition to serving the Seaboard's mainline trains between Richmond and Florida (including the and), the station served until 1969 the Silver Comet to Birmingham. Until 1958, the SAL operated a daily passenger train from Wilmington, North Carolina, to Charlotte via Hamlet and Monroe.^[2] ^[3]

The station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 19, 1971 as the Seaboard Air Line Passenger Depot. That year, Amtrak took over intercity passenger service. Between 2001 and 2004 the entire Queen Anne-style station house was moved across a set of tracks for safety, and converted into a museum by the North Carolina Department of Transportation.^[4] On November 10, 2024, the Silver Star was merged with the as the Floridian.^[5]

External links

Hamlet Station – NC By Train

Notes and References

Web site: Linwood III. King. Sherry Joines. Wyatt. Seaboard Air Line Passenger Depot (Additional Documentation). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. 2005. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. 2015-02-01.
Seaboard Air Line, Table 38 . Official Guide of the Railways . National Railway Publication Company . 91 . 3 . August 1958.
News: Gubbins . Pat Borden . August 7, 1988 . ALL ABOARD! TENANT SOUGHT TO RENOVATE SEABOARD DEPOT. Charlotte Observer.
Web site: Hamlet Station. https://web.archive.org/web/20050209083348/http://www.bytrain.org/istation/ihamlet.html. February 9, 2005. NCDOT.
September 23, 2024 . Amtrak Launching the Floridian, with Daily Service Between Chicago and Miami . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240923190514/https://media.amtrak.com/2024/09/amtrak-launching-the-floridian-with-daily-service-between-chicago-and-miami/ . September 23, 2024 . September 23, 2024 . Amtrak.