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grant. Oak Hill began an annual festival known as Depot Day in 1997 to raise money to restore the depot. The depot presently serves as a meeting place for the White Oak chapter of the National Railway Historical Society but is otherwise vacant; it is the sole surviving Virginian Railway depot in West
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features, a style representative of small-town railway depots of the early 1900s. The original depot consisted of a passenger waiting area and a station master's office. A warehouse, loading dock, and ramp were added to the depot in 1922. Restoration on the depot began in 1993, at which point it was
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leased the depot in 1912 and ultimately bought it in 1922. The depot continued to provide passenger and freight service to Oak Hill until after
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The Oak Hill Railroad Depot is a one-story wooden building located on the southwest corner of Central Avenue and Virginia Street, along the
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for the Norfolk and Western Railway, donated the closed depot to the city of Oak Hill in 1995. The White Oak chapter of the
541: 561: 289: 249: 240:. The depot is located on the southwest corner of Virginia Avenue and Central Avenue. It opened as a station on the 536: 1039: 431: 324: 277: 273: 269: 571: 229: 118: 625: 332: 296: 640: 620: 462: 363: 265: 241: 518: 248:, which it served until 1957. From this year until closure in 1983, it operated as a depot for the 994: 523: 413: 508: 281: 245: 328: 315:
In 2013, the station caught fire in a suspected arson attempt and suffered slight damage.
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in 1957 and provided freight service for the railway until it closed to trains in 1983.
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painted a period shade of gray. Behind the depot, there is a small steam locomotive.
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Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia
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National Register of Historic Places in Fayette County, West Virginia
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Category:National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia
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has since restored the depot through donations and a
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Railway stations in the United States closed in 1983
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Railway stations in the United States opened in 1903
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History of the National Register of Historic Places
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Late 19th And Early 20th Century American Movements
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Oak Hill station is located in West Virginia
Oak Hill station is located in the United States
Oak Hill
West Virginia
37°58′41″N 81°8′59″W / 37.97806°N 81.14972°W / 37.97806; -81.14972
95000255
depot
Oak Hill
West Virginia
United States
White Oak Railway
Virginian Railway
Norfolk and Western Railway
National Railway Historical Society
White Oak Railway
Glen Jean
Summerlee
Lochgelly
Virginian Railway
World War II
Norfolk and Western Railway
Norfolk Southern Corp.
holding company
National Railway Historical Society
U.S. Department of Transportation
Norfolk Southern Railway
board and batten
Victorian

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