Kingstree station
Kingstree, SC | |||||||||||||||
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| Amtrak inter-city rail station | |||||||||||||||
 Kingstree Amtrak Station under restoration; April 2011. | |||||||||||||||
| Location | 101 East Main Street  Kingstree, SC 29556 | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 33°39′49″N 79°49′45″W / 33.6637°N 79.8291°WCoordinates:33°39′49″N 79°49′45″W / 33.6637°N 79.8291°W | ||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Charleston Subdivision | ||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||
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| Parking | Yes | ||||||||||||||
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| Station code | KTR | ||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1909 | ||||||||||||||
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| 2013 | 14,669[1]  1% | ||||||||||||||
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Kingstree Amtrak Station | |||||||||||||||
U.S. Historic district Contributing property | |||||||||||||||
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| Part of | Kingstree Historic District (ID82003906[2]) | ||||||||||||||
| MPS | Kingstree MRA | ||||||||||||||
| Added to NRHP | June 28, 1982 | ||||||||||||||
Kingstree is a train station in Kingstree, South Carolina, operated by Amtrak, the United States' railroad passenger system. It was originally built by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in 1909. The station survived the merger of the Atlantic Coast Line and Seaboard Air Line Railroads into the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad in 1967, only to terminate passenger service in 1971. Amtrak service to Kingstree began on June 15, 1976, with the introduction of the Palmetto.[3] The station is currently part of the Kingstree Historic District.
The two tracks at Kingstree Station cross the intersection of East Main Street (SC 261) and Hampton Avenue. Four streets named "Railroad Avenue" run along the tracks near the station. South Railroad Avenue on the west side of the tracks is on the corner of the station house itself, while South Railroad Avenue on the east side of the tracks is a dead end street running south of Ashton Avenue. On the north side of East Main Street, North Railroad Avenue on the west side of the tracks begins at Hampton Avenue just north of its southern terminus with East Main Street, while North Railroad Avenue on the east side begins at East Main Street itself.
References
- ^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2013, State of South Carolina" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2013. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Southern Amtrak passenger train scheduled". News-Tribune. April 11, 1976. Retrieved 2011-07-04.
External links
Media related to Kingstree (Amtrak station) at Wikimedia Commons
Media related to - Kingstree, SC – Amtrak
- Kingstree Amtrak Station (USA Rail Guide -- Train Web)
- Kingstree, South Carolina Railroad Stations (South Carolina Railroad Stations)
- Kingstree, SC (KTR) (Amtrak's Great American Stations)
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Media files used on this page
Amtrak logo, no lettering
Author/Creator: Uwe Dedering, Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0
Location map of the USA (without Hawaii and Alaska).
EquiDistantConicProjection:
Central parallel:
* N: 37.0° N
Central meridian:
* E: 96.0° W
Standard parallels:
* 1: 32.0° N * 2: 42.0° N
Made with Natural Earth. Free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com.
Formulas for x and y:
x = 50.0 + 124.03149777329222 * ((1.9694462586094064-({{{2}}}* pi / 180))
* sin(0.6010514667026994 * ({{{3}}} + 96) * pi / 180))
y = 50.0 + 1.6155950752393982 * 124.03149777329222 * 0.02613325650382181
- 1.6155950752393982 * 124.03149777329222 *
(1.3236744353715044 - (1.9694462586094064-({{{2}}}* pi / 180))
* cos(0.6010514667026994 * ({{{3}}} + 96) * pi / 180))
A train station logo.
A new version of the shield for a South Carolina State Highway
Author/Creator: DanTD, Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0
Kingstree (Amtrak station) with the newer sign along the tracks in front of the station in Kingstree, South Carolina. More images to come. The station is in the process of being rebuilt as of the uploading of this file, compared to Yemassee (Amtrak station), which is being torn down and replaced.
Author/Creator: Alexrk, Licence: CC BY 3.0
This map was created with GeoTools.