St. Albans station (Vermont)
St. Albans, VT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Location | 40 Federal Street St. Albans, Vermont United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 44°48′44″N 73°05′10″W / 44.8123°N 73.0861°W | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Line(s) | New England Central Railroad | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Platforms | 1 side platform | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tracks | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Connections | Green Mountain Transit (GMT): 96, 109, 110, 115, 116 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Accessible | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Station code | Amtrak: SAB | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | January 10, 1851 September 29, 1972 July 19, 1989 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Closed | September 6, 1966 April 6, 1987 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rebuilt | June 1867 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FY 2022 | 3,621[1] (Amtrak) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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St. Albans station is an Amtrak train station in St. Albans, Vermont, United States. It is the northern terminus of the daily Vermonter service.
Service to St. Albans on the
The office building is used as the headquarters of the New England Central Railroad, successor of the Central Vermont. The office building and current station building are part of the Central Vermont Railroad Headquarters, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
History
Construction
The
Among the buildings constructed were a new station and adjacent office building, which were begun in 1866 and completed in June 1867. The brick station building, measuring 70 feet (21 m) by 22 feet (6.7 m), was attached to a four-track
Declining service
The Vermont Central was reorganized as the Central Vermont Railway (CV) in 1873. On July 1, 1873, the CV-owned Missisquoi Railroad (later the Richmond Branch) opened as a branch line from St. Albans.[2] The struggling CV became part of the Grand Trunk Railway in 1896.[3] The Grand Trunk was in turn merged into the Canadian National Railway (CN) in 1923.[2]
Four chimneys on the south facade of the office building were removed in 1915.[4][3] A tower on the southwest corner of the trainshed was removed in 1923.[3] Passenger service on the Richmond Branch ended on November 11, 1938.[2] The CN demolished the station and trainshed in 1963, and passenger service ended with the discontinuance of the Montrealer on September 6, 1966.[4][2][5] A local preservation group was formed in 1970; with the office building and remaining yard facilities placed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 21, 1974, as the Central Vermont Railroad Headquarters.[3]
Amtrak service
Amtrak took over intercity passenger service in the United States in 1971. A revived Montrealer began serving St. Albans on September 29, 1972.[2] A small brick building north of the former trainshed, constructed around 1900 as a switch tower and yard office, was put into use as the new station building.[3][4] The Montrealer was suspended from April 6, 1987, to July 19, 1989. It was curtailed to St. Albans as the Vermonter on April 2, 1995.[2] The Vermonter uses the remaining wye connection of the 1990-abandoned Richmond Branch north of the station to reverse direction.[2] The CV was sold and renamed as the New England Central Railroad (NECR) in 1995; the NECR continues to use the office building as its headquarters.[2][3]
In March 2020, the station was temporarily closed and Vermonter service was suspended indefinitely north of New Haven, both part of a reduced service plan due to the coronavirus pandemic.[6][7] Service was restored in July 2021.[8]
References
- ^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2022: State of Vermont" (PDF). Amtrak. June 2023. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
- ^ ISBN 0942147065.
- ^ a b c d e f g "St. Albans, VT (SAB)". Great American Stations. Amtrak.
- ^ a b c d e f "National Register Information System – Central Vermont Railroad Headquarters (#74000211)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
- ^ You Ought to Know Railway Age November 11, 1963 page 40
- ^ Tourangeau, Ariana (March 27, 2020). "Amtrak's Vermonter train temporarily out of service". WWLP. Retrieved May 1, 2020.
- ^ "Service Adjustments Due to Coronavirus" (Press release). Amtrak. 2020-04-06. Archived from the original on 2020-04-06. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
- ^ "Vermont Marks Return Of Amtrak Service". WAMC. 2021-07-19. Retrieved 2023-11-30.
External links
- St. Albans, VT – Amtrak
- St. Albans, VT – Station history at Great American Stations (Amtrak)
- Train Web - USA Rail Guide St. Albans, VT (SAB)