Style: | Amtrak |
North Carolina State Fair | |
Address: | 1025 Blue Ridge Road |
Borough: | Raleigh, North Carolina |
Country: | United States |
Coordinates: | 35.7942°N -78.7061°W |
Line: | NCRR Corridor Aberdeen Subdivision |
Platform: | 1 side platform |
Tracks: | 3 |
Parking: | No |
Accessible: | Yes |
Status: | Seasonal; platform only |
Mapframe: | yes |
North Carolina State Fair station is a seasonal Amtrak station serving the North Carolina State Fairground in Raleigh, North Carolina. It is served by Amtrak's Carolinian and Piedmont trains when the fair is in operation in mid-October.
The station waiting area is a tent on the west corner of Blue Ridge Road and south corner of Hillsborough Street. There are no ticketing services on site.[1] A wheelchair lift stored near the grade crossing provides accessibility to passengers.
Across the tracks from the fairgrounds is an abandoned freight spur leading to what is today a North Carolina Department of Transportation equipment storage facility along Beryl Road, as well as another one leading to what is now a storage warehouse. Sidetracks exist on both sides of the tracks between Powell Drive and Blue Ridge Road.