Randolph station (Vermont)

Randolph, VT
Randolph station in July 2006
General information
Location	South Main Street and Salisbury Street Randolph, Vermont United States
Coordinates	43°55′22″N 72°39′57″W / 43.92278°N 72.66583°W / 43.92278; -72.66583
Owned by	Randolph Depot Restaurant
Line(s)	New England Central Railroad
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	1
Connections	Stagecoach Transportation
Construction
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Station code	Amtrak: RPH
History
Opened	January 31, 1849 (Vermont Central Railroad)[1] April 14, 1996 (Amtrak)[2]
Closed	1966
Rebuilt	1877
Passengers
FY 2022	2,014[3] (Amtrak)
Services
Preceding station Amtrak Following station White River Junction toward Washington, D.C. Vermonter Montpelier toward St. Albans
Former services Preceding station Central Vermont Railway Following station Bethel toward New London Main Line Braintree toward St. Johns
Central Vermont Railway depot
U.S. Historic district Contributing property
Location	South Main & Salisbury Streets Depot Square Randolph, Vermont
Area	12 acres (4.9 ha)
Built	1877
Architectural style	Greek Revival, Late Victorian, Second Empire
Part of	Depot Square Historic District (ID75000143[4])
Designated CP	May 29, 1975

Randolph station is an Amtrak train station in Randolph, Vermont, United States. The only train that serves the station is the Vermonter, which operates between St. Albans, Vermont and Washington, D.C.^[5] The former depot building contains a market and restaurant. On the other side of the tracks is the depot for a non-profit bus company, Tri-Valley Transit, ^[6] essentially creating an unofficial intermodal transportation center.^[7] However, the schedules of the two systems are not aligned in any way.

History

The Vermont Central Railroad was chartered to build a line along the Connecticut River to Lake Champlain, which was to include service to Randolph. The original station was not built until 1848, by which time the VCRR was acquired by the Central Vermont Railway. By the late-1870s (although signs on the depot suggest 1881), Central Vermont moved the original depot and built a new one, converting the VCRR station into a freight house. When Central Vermont was on the verge of bankruptcy in 1896, the Grand Trunk Western Railroad, a subsidiary of Canadian National Railway bought the railroad and the station out and kept it afloat throughout most of the 20th Century.

Both passenger and freight service ended in Randolph in 1966. A group of volunteers later restored the stations and the surrounding area, including converting the second station into a café and restaurant.

Randolph Station became a contributing property to the Depot Square Historic District since 1975. In the 1990s local leaders began lobbying Amtrak to make Randolph a new railroad stop, even going so far as to rebuild the original VCRR freight depot into a bus depot for Randolph Stagecoach Transportation, now Tri-Valley Transit. Amtrak began using the station as a stop on the Vermonter in 1996.

References

External links

Media related to Randolph station (Vermont) at Wikimedia Commons

• Randolph, VT – Amtrak
• Randolph, VT – Station history at Great American Stations (Amtrak)