Yemassee (Amtrak station)

Yemassee

Yemassee Amtrak Station as seen from the Old Salkehatchie Highway grade crossing
Location 15 Wall Street
Yemassee, SC 29945
Coordinates 32°41′18″N 80°50′50″W / 32.6883°N 80.8471°WCoordinates: 32°41′18″N 80°50′50″W / 32.6883°N 80.8471°W
Line(s)
Platforms 1 side platform
Tracks 2
Other information
Station code YEM
History
Rebuilt 1955, 2010-present
Traffic
Passengers (2013) 14,915[1] Increase 2%
Services
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station
toward Miami
Silver Meteor
Terminus
Palmetto
  Former services  
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Ridgeland
toward Tampa Union Station
Main Line
Green Pond

The Yemassee Amtrak station is an Amtrak station in Yemassee, South Carolina. Located at 15 Wall Street (erroneously listed as 9 Main Street in the Amtrak timetable and at Amtrak.com), the station consists of a covered platform on the northwest side of the northeast-southwest tracks, a small parking lot, and a building. The building is mostly boarded up, but it does have a small waiting room for Amtrak passengers. It also contains a freight depot. Both the station and the freight house were originally built by the Charleston and Western Carolina Railway. The current station house was built around 1955 as a replacement for several other stations in the past. The station was later run by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad.

Yemassee was the first stop for eager recruits seeking to earn the title United States Marine before reaching Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island from 1915 to 1965. Many Marines that fought in wars and conflicts spanning WWI through Vietnam began their transformation at the train station. [2]

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Yemassee is served by the Palmetto and Silver Meteor trains of Amtrak's Silver Service. Both trains pass through Yemassee, near the growing towns of Beaufort and Hilton Head, at roughly the same times of the day; the northbound Palmetto and southbound Silver Meteor do so in the morning, while the southbound Palmetto and northbound Silver Meteor come through in the evening.

The town is in the process of purchasing the station from Amtrak as part of a local revitalization effort.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2013, State of South Carolina" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2013. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
  2. ↑ http://www.marines.mil/Photos.aspx?igphoto=2000950986
  3. ↑ Cerve, Kate (10 March 2010). "Yemassee buys train depot, the cornerstone of town's renovation". The Island Packet. Retrieved 2010-03-11.

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