Hamlet station

Historic Hamlet Depot & Museum
Hamlet Depot after complete restoration and renovation in 2004
Location 2 West Main Street, Hamlet NC 28345
Owned by City of Hamlet, NC
Line(s)
  Silver Star
Platforms 1 side platform
Tracks 1
Construction
Structure type Historic Railroad Depot and Museum
Other information
Station code HAM
History
Opened 1900
Traffic
Passengers (2013) 4,882[1] Increase 1.2%
Services
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station
toward Miami
Silver Star
toward New York
Seaboard Air Line Passenger Depot
Location 2 Main Street
Hamlet, North Carolina
Coordinates 34°52′59.98″N 79°41′53.72″W / 34.8833278°N 79.6982556°W / 34.8833278; -79.6982556Coordinates: 34°52′59.98″N 79°41′53.72″W / 34.8833278°N 79.6982556°W / 34.8833278; -79.6982556
Area 1.6 acres (0.65 ha)
Built 1900 (1900)
Built by Seaboard Airline Railway
Architectural style Queen Anne
NRHP reference # 71000617[2]
Added to NRHP November 19, 1971

Hamlet is a train station located in Hamlet, North Carolina. It is served by Amtrak's Silver Star passenger train. It is located at East Main Street and North Bridges Street, and is located in the heart of historic downtown Hamlet.

Hamlet Station was originally built in 1900 by the Seaboard Air Line Railroad as both a passenger station and a division headquarters.[3] It was originally called the Seaboard Air Line Passenger Depot and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 19, 1971.[2] 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]

References

  1. ↑ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2013, State of North Carolina" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2013. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
  2. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  3. ↑ Linwood King III and Sherry Joines Wyatt (2005). "Seaboard Air Line Passenger Depot (Additional Documentation)" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.
  4. ↑ Hamlet Station Improvements (NCDOT)Broken reference link, May 2017.
Seaboard Air Line Passenger Depot, c. 1915
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