Goldsboro Union Station
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The Goldsboro Union Station is a former passenger train depot and future intermodal transit station in Goldsboro, North Carolina, United States. Originally operating from 1909 to 1968, the Eclectic two-story brick depot was preserved as one of the most ambitious railroad structures in North Carolina, built as a symbol of the importance of railroading to Goldsboro. Currently closed-off for future renovations, the five-acre (2.0 ha) facility also includes the GWTA Bus Transfer Center. The station is located four blocks west, or 700 yards (640 m), from Downtown Goldsboro's Center Street, via Walnut or Mulberry streets which had been the location of the original Union Depot. Covering two full blocks, the five-acre (2.0 ha) facility is bounded by CSX tracks along with Chestnut, Mulberry, and Carolina streets. Surrounded by residential, some of the immediate properties are zoned as general business, but are not occupied. On March 2, 1906, the Goldsboro Union Station Company was chartered to build a new station, which was to be a union of passenger rail services from Atlantic and North Carolina, Atlantic Coast Line (ACL), and Southern railroads. Formerly, all three railroads had their own separate freight operations immediately north of downtown with a small Union Depot in the middle of downtown. The site selected was at the foot of Walnut Street on a spur line that bypassed west of downtown. Construction began in August 1907 and was completed in June 1909, at a cost $72,024. The architectural design is credited to J.F. Leitner's firm, Leitner & Wilkins. It is a two-story brick building, seven bays wide and two bays deep, with a hip roof, flanked by one-story gabled brick wings. It features a three-story central tower and one-story front and rear porches. The ACL operated trains on the former Wilmington and Weldon Railroad between Wilmington (the original headquarters of the ACL) and a point near Wilson, where a connection was made to the Richmond–Florida main line. The Southern Railway operated passenger trains such as the northern branch of the Cincinnati-bound Carolina Special from Goldsboro through Raleigh and Durham to Greensboro. Into the early 1950s the Atlantic and East Carolina Railway ran a daily passenger train from Goldsboro, North Carolina southeast to Morehead City on the Crystal Coast. The last passenger train to use Goldsboro Union Station was discontinued in 1968. That train was a Rocky Mount station - Wilmington Union Station Seaboard Coast Line route that originated in connection with the Champion southbound, and the Palmetto northbound. Goldsboro Union Station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, by that time the property changed hands several times and was currently owned by Goldsboro Builders Supply.
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Goldsboro Union Station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 12, 1977.
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Goldsboro Union Station is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.
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