Ashland, Virginia (Amtrak station)

Ashland

Ashland Station & Visitor's Center
Station statistics
Address 112 North Railroad Avenue
Ashland, VA, 23005
Lines
Platforms 2
Tracks 2
Other information
Opened 1866
Rebuilt 1890, 1923
Code ASD
Traffic
Passengers (2010) 19,163[1]  15%
Services
Ashland Visitor's Center
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station
Northeast Regional

The Ashland, Virginia (Amtrak station) is located at 112 North Railroad Avenue in Ashland, Virginia. The tracks are lined with a cobblestone median in the center of town, making it a popular train-watching site for railfans.

Ashland station operates from a former Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad station built in 1923 as a replacement for the station which was originally built in 1866 and rebuilt in 1890. The station was closed in 1967, but reopened in 1985[2] and also serves as the Ashland Visitor's Center.

Ashland Station was racially segregated, like many railroad stations in the Southeastern U.S. until the 1960s. A single ticket booth in the center of the building used to serve both the white and black waiting rooms separately. The former Black waiting room is now a museum filled with various RF&P railroad artifacts, including blueprints, model railroad trains, a bench that was once on display at the Smithsonian Museum, local newspaper and locally related magazine articles.

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References

  1. ^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2010, Commonwealth of Virginia" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2010. http://www.amtrak.com/pdf/factsheets/VIRGINIA10.pdf. Retrieved 2011-01-06. 
  2. ^ [Back on Track, by Mark Bowes (Richmond News Leader; June 14, 1985)]

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