White Sulphur Springs
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West bound Cardinal at the platform
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Location | 315 West Main Street White Sulphur Springs, WV 24986 |
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Coordinates | 37°47′7″N 80°18′20″W / 37.78528°N 80.30556°WCoordinates: 37°47′7″N 80°18′20″W / 37.78528°N 80.30556°W | ||||||||||
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Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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Parking | Yes | ||||||||||
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Station code | WSS | ||||||||||
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Passengers (2013) | 5,204 13% | ||||||||||
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White Sulphur Springs is a railway station in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, served by Amtrak, the national passenger railway. The station is a stop on Amtrak's Cardinal route.
The station was built in 1930 or 1931 by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) to serve passengers on the new Pullman rail coaches to the resort hotel. The current brick building replaced a wooden structure that was built in the early 1900s. It is directly across from the entrance to The Greenbrier Hotel grounds.
The original cottages that eventually expanded to a resort property known as the Old White Hotel, was purchased by C&O in 1910. The hotel was renovated and reopened in 1913 as the Greenbrier. The hotel became a showcase for the railroad company and it was promoted in C&O's timetables and literature. Tracks behind the station were used for parking business-owned and private cars of the wealthy patrons that came to the hotel.
The station building now serves as resort hotel's own Christmas gift shop. The station's peppermint-striped paint job makes it unique among other Amtrak stations.