Dover Transportation Center
Dover Transportation Center | |||||||||||
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General information | |||||||||||
Location | 33 Chestnut Street Dover, New Hampshire | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 43°11′54″N 70°52′38″W / 43.19833°N 70.87722°W | ||||||||||
Owned by | City of Dover (station building) Pan Am Railways (platform and tracks) | ||||||||||
Line(s) | Pan Am Railways mainline | ||||||||||
Connections | COAST: 1, 2 | ||||||||||
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Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
Other information | |||||||||||
Station code | Amtrak code: DOV | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | 1842 December 15, 2001 | ||||||||||
Closed | June 30, 1967 | ||||||||||
Rebuilt | 1875 | ||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||
2017 | 59,060[1] 12.6% | ||||||||||
Services | |||||||||||
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Dover Transportation Center is an Amtrak train station in Dover, New Hampshire, United States. The station is served by five daily Downeaster round trips. An average of 150 passengers board or alight at Dover daily, making it the second-busiest stop in New Hampshire.[1]
History
The Boston & Maine Railroad (B&M) opened its first Dover station, a wood frame structure with a small train shed, in 1842. It was replaced by a one-story brick structure in 1875.[2] The B&M ran intercity service to Portland, Maine on its Western Route (now the Pan Am Railways mainline) until January 4, 1965. After Portland service ended, a single commute-hour round trip to Dover ran until June 30, 1967, when it was cut back to Haverhill, Massachusetts.[3]
A new station building was constructed for the introduction of Downeaster service in December 2001.[2] C&J Trailways originally used the building, but later constructed their bus station closer to New Hampshire Route 16. In October 2018, the city approved a five-year lease of the building to a bagel shop.[4]
Bus connections
Bus service is provided by COAST to locations within Dover and the Seacoast Region of New Hampshire as well as UNH Wildcat Transit to Durham and the University of NH.
References
- ^ a b "Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2017, State of New Hampshire" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2017. Retrieved December 17, 2017.
- ^ a b "Dover, NH (DOV)". Great American Stations. Amtrak.
- ^ Belcher, Jonathan. "Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district" (PDF). Boston Street Railway Association.
- ^ Early, Brian (October 10, 2018). "Bagel shop to open at Dover Transportation Center". Fosters.
External links
- Media related to Dover Transportation Center at Wikimedia Commons
- Buildings and structures in Dover, New Hampshire
- Amtrak stations in New Hampshire
- Stations along Boston and Maine Railroad lines
- Transportation buildings and structures in Strafford County, New Hampshire
- Railway stations opened in 2003
- Northeastern United States railway station stubs
- New Hampshire building and structure stubs
- New Hampshire transportation stubs