Kingstree (Amtrak station)
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 Kingstree Amtrak Station under restoration; April 2011. |
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| Address | 101 East Main Street  Kingstree, SC 29556 |
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| Coordinates | 33°39′49″N 79°49′45″W / 33.6637°N 79.8291°WCoordinates: 33°39′49″N 79°49′45″W / 33.6637°N 79.8291°W | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parking | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1909 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Code | KTR | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Passengers (2011) | 13,539[1]  4.3% |
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The Kingstree Amtrak station is a train station in Kingstree, South Carolina, United States served by Amtrak, the national railroad passenger system. It was originally built by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in 1909 The station survived the merger of the Atlantic Coast Line and Seaboard Air Line Railroads into the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad in 1967, only to terminate passenger service in 1971. Amtrak service to Kingstree began on June 15, 1976, with the introduction of the Palmetto.[2] The station is currently part of the Kingstree Historic District.
The two tracks at Kingstree Station cross the intersection of East Main Street(SC 261) and Hampton Avenue. Four streets named "Railroad Avenue" run along the tracks near the station. South Railroad Avenue on the west side of the tracks is on the corner of the station house itself, while South Railroad Avenue on the east side of the tracks is a dead end street running south of Ashton Avenue. On the north side of East Main Street, North Railroad Avenue on the west side of the tracks begins at Hampton Avenue just north of its southern terminus with East Main Street, while North Railroad Avenue on the east side begins at East Main Street itself.
Of the 11 South Carolina stations served by Amtrak, Kingstree dropped to be the sixth-busiest in FY2011 (From fifth-busiest in FY2010), boarding or detraining an average of approximately 37 passengers daily.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2011, State of South Carolina" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2011. http://www.amtrak.com/pdf/factsheets/SOUTHCAROLINA11.pdf. Retrieved 2012-01-09.
- ^ "Southern Amtrak passenger train scheduled". News-Tribune. April 11, 1976. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cTExAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IkQDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1220,3119296. Retrieved 2011-07-04.
[edit] External links
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