Goldsboro Union Station

Goldsboro Union Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	101 North Carolina Street Goldsboro, North Carolina
Coordinates
Area	5 acres (2.0 ha)
Built	1907 (1907)
Architect	Leitner & Wilkins
NRHP Reference #	77001015
Added to NRHP	April 13, 1977

Union Station in Goldsboro, Wayne County, North Carolina was built between 1907 and 1909 at West Walnut and North Carolina Streets to serve the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, the Southern Railway, and the Atlantic and North Carolina Railway. The architectural design is credited to J.F. Leitner's firm, Leitner & Wilkins. It is a two-story brick building, seven bays wide and two bays deep, with a hip roof, flanked by one-story gabled brick wings. It features a three-story central tower and one-story front and rear porches.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

The ACL operated trains on the former Wilmington and Weldon Railroad between Wilmington (the original headquarters of the ACL) and a point near Wilson, where a connection was made to the Richmond–Florida main line.

Southern operated trains from Goldsboro through Raleigh and Durham to Greensboro.

When the station was constructed, the A&NC was controlled by the Norfolk Southern Railway (NS). In 1935 the NS lost control of the A&NC, which was then operated as the Atlantic and East Carolina; it was acquired by the Southern in 1957.

The last passenger train to use Goldsboro Union Station was discontinued in 1968. The North Carolina Department of Transportation is studying the resumption of passenger service from Raleigh through Goldsboro to Wilmington. On August 17, 2007 NCDOT announced that it had purchased the station and would renovate it to serve as a multimodal transportation center.

References

• http://abandonedrailroads.homestead.com/wilmington_wallace_nc_csx.html

Preceding station		Atlantic Coast Line Railroad		Following station
Pikeville toward Wilson		Wilson – Wilmington		Dudley toward Wilmington