Hamlet station

Historic Hamlet Depot & Museum
Historic Hamlet Depot & Museum
	File:Historic Hamlet Depot & Museum.jpg Hamlet Depot after complete restoration and renovation in 2004
General information
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
Passengers
2013	4,882 1.2%
Services
	Seaboard Air Line Passenger Depot
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	2 Main Street; Hamlet, North Carolina
Coordinates	34°52′59.98″N 79°41′53.72″W / 34.8833278°N 79.6982556°W
Area	1.6 acres (0.65 ha)
Built	1900
Built by	Seaboard Airline Railway
Architectural style	Queen Anne
NRHP reference No.	71000617
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

^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2013, State of North Carolina" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2013. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ 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.
^ Hamlet Station Improvements (NCDOT)

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[1] "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2013, State of North Carolina" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2013. Retrieved 3 December 2013.

[nris-2] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[nrhpinv-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)

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