Southern Pines station is a train station located in Southern Pines, North Carolina, served by Amtrak's Silver Star train. The street address is 235 Northwest Broad Street, and is located in the heart of historic downtown Southern Pines. The station was originally built by a predecessor of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad in 1898, renovated in 1948, and restored to its 1948 design in 2004.[2]
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![]() The Southern Pines Amtrak station, originally built in 1898 by a predecessor of the Seaboard Air Line Railway | |||||||||||||
General information | |||||||||||||
Location | 235 Northwest Broad Street Southern Pines, North Carolina United States | ||||||||||||
Coordinates | 35°10′32″N 79°23′25″W / 35.175527°N 79.390383°W | ||||||||||||
Owned by | Town of Southern Pines | ||||||||||||
Line(s) | Aberdeen Subdivision | ||||||||||||
Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||||
Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||||
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Structure type | At-grade | ||||||||||||
Parking | Yes; free | ||||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||
Other information | |||||||||||||
Status | Unstaffed | ||||||||||||
Station code | Amtrak: SOP | ||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||
Opened | 1898 | ||||||||||||
Rebuilt | 1948, 2004 | ||||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||||
FY 2023 | 6,652[1] (Amtrak) | ||||||||||||
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There is no Amtrak ticket office at this station, but there is "Quik-Trak" machine for automated ticketing.
References
edit- ^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2023: State of North Carolina" (PDF). Amtrak. March 2024. Retrieved June 30, 2024.
- ^ "Southern Pines, NC (SOP) - Great American Stations". Amtrak's Great American Stations. Retrieved July 17, 2019.
External links
editMedia related to Southern Pines (Amtrak station) at Wikimedia Commons