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Union Station (Winston-Salem, North Carolina)

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The street level, historically known as the concourse level, has the station's waiting room. The middle level is unoccupied, and the city intends on leasing out the space. The City of Winston-Salem Department of Transportation offices and Traffic Management Center occupies the station's lowest floor.
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capitals. Surrounding the building are some surviving original landscape features. The station served as the city's sole passenger train station between 1926 and 1970.
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The station was sold to Harvey Davis in 1975, and he converted the building into an automobile repair business called Davis Garage.
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The station has three levels, with the highest level at-grade with Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive and the lowest level along
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was granted $ 500,000 toward engineering and feasibility studies for the route.
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and built between 1924 and 1926. It is a one to three story, banked
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Union Station currently serves as a secondary bus hub for the
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included an Amtrak route connecting Winston-Salem to
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Railway stations in the United States closed in 1970
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Winston-Salem acquired the building in 2012 through
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Winston-Salem, North Carolina
36°5′36″N 80°13′42″W / 36.09333°N 80.22833°W / 36.09333; -80.22833
WSTA
PART
Amtrak
Amtrak Thruway
Fellhimer & Wagner
Amtrak
UWS
Union Station
Norfolk and Western Railway
Winston-Salem
Roanoke
Walkertown
Roanoke
Southern Railway
Bethania
North Wilkesboro
North Wilkesboro
Morehead City
Kernersville
Morehead City
Haynes
Mooresville Junction
Winston-Salem
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
train station
bus station
Winston-Salem

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