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Ashland Station & Visitor's Center |
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Address | 112 North Railroad Avenue Ashland, VA, 23005 |
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Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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Opened | 1866 | ||||||||||
Rebuilt | 1890, 1923 | ||||||||||
Code | ASD | ||||||||||
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Passengers (2010) | 19,163[1] 15% | ||||||||||
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Ashland Visitor's Center
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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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