High Point (Amtrak Station)
History
High Point Station was originally built in 1907, by Southern Railway, and was designed in Richardsonian Romanesque, with a rusticated ashlar base and a tiled hip roof. In the late 1930s, a trench was dug so rail and automobile traffic would not impede each other through downtown High Point; a walkway across the tracks and a staircase to an island platform at track level was constructed. In 1979, Amtrak took over passenger operations at the station from Southern Railway. Between 2002 and 2003, a $6.8 million renovation project was done that included making the station ADA accessible; the station reopened on December 9, 2003.
Services
The train station, operated by Amtrak, provides inter-city rail service via three routes: Crescent, Carolinian and Piedmont. Amtrak operating hours are at 12:00am–4:00am, 7:00am–12:30pm and 3:30pm–9:00pm; it includes a Quik-Trak kiosk, waiting area and restrooms. No baggage service is available at this station. A station attendant is available on-site during operating hours.
Broad Avenue Terminal
The Broad Avenue Terminal, operated by HPTS, provides local bus service that operate Monday-Friday at 5:45am–7:30pm and Saturday at 8:45am–5:30pm, closed on Sunday. PART also operates two intercity bus routes from the terminal, Route 3 (High Point Express) and Route 9 (Davidson Business 85 Express), which travel to Greensboro and Thomasville/Lexington respectively.
Amtrak Thruway service to Winston-Salem State University (Union Station) and Winston-Salem (Clark Campbell Transportation Center) is provided four times a day, Monday–Saturday. This service is operated by PART, designated as Route 5 (NC Amtrak Connector). Amtrak bus departing designations are #6173, #6175, #6177, and #6179; arriving designations are #6174, #6176, #6178, and #6180.
Station layout
The station building is located on West High Avenue, with a walkway that goes across a 35 ft (11 m) deep trench to the Broad Avenue Terminal. The station's island platform is located in the trench, connected to the walkway by stairs and an elevator.
Station layout | ||
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G | Street Level | Entrance/Exit, station building, walkway, parking, bus terminal |
P | Track 1 | ← Crescent, Carolinian toward New York (Greensboro) ← Piedmont toward Raleigh (Greensboro) |
Island platform | ||
Track 2 | Crescent toward New Orleans (Salisbury) → Carolinian, Piedmont toward Charlotte (Lexington or Salisbury) → |
References
- ^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2023: State of North Carolina" (PDF). Amtrak. March 2024. Retrieved June 30, 2024.
- ^ "High Point, NC (HPT) - Great American Stations". Amtrak's Great American Stations. Retrieved July 17, 2019.
- ^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2017, State of North Carolina" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2017. Retrieved February 3, 2019.
- ^ "Hamlet, North Carolina Train Station (HAM) - Amtrak". Retrieved February 3, 2019.
- ^ "High Point, North Carolina Train Station (HPT) - Amtrak". Retrieved July 18, 2019.
- ^ "High Point Train Schedule - North Carolina Amtrak Service". Retrieved July 18, 2019.
- ^ "City of High Point Transit System Map" (PDF). Hi tran. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-12-22. Retrieved December 14, 2015.
- ^ "Transit - High Point, NC". City of High Point. Retrieved April 28, 2018.
- ^ "Route 3 – High Point Express". PART. November 6, 2017. Retrieved July 18, 2019.
- ^ "Route 9 – Davidson Business 85 Express". PART. July 3, 2017. Retrieved July 18, 2019.
- ^ "Route 5 – NC Amtrak Connector". PART. June 4, 2018. Archived from the original on July 18, 2019. Retrieved July 18, 2019.