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'{{Infobox station | style=Amtrak | name=Thurmond, WV | type=[[Amtrak]] [[inter-city rail]] station | image=Thurmond WV Depot.jpg | image_caption=Looking southeast across the train tracks towards the Thurmond Station building | coordinates = | address=County Route 25 & County Route 2, [[Thurmond, West Virginia]] | line=[[CSX]] [[New River Subdivision]] | other= | platform=1 [[side platform]] | tracks=3 (1 unused) | structure=At-grade | parking=Yes, extremely limited | bicycle= | passengers=345<ref>{{cite web |title= Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2017, State of West Virginia|publisher= [[Amtrak]] |date= November 2017 |url= https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/projects/dotcom/english/public/documents/corporate/statefactsheets/WESTVIRGINIA17.pdf |format= PDF |accessdate= December 16, 2017}}</ref> | pass_year=2017 | pass_percent=17.8 | pass_system=Amtrak | opened=1905, 1977 (Amtrak) | rebuilt=1995 | ADA= | code=THN | owned=[[National Park Service]] | zone= | services= {{Adjacent stations|system=Amtrak|line=Cardinal|left=Montgomery|right=Prince}} | other_services_header = Former services | other_services_collapsible = yes | other_services = {{Adjacent stations|system=Amtrak |line4=James Whitcomb Riley|left4=Charleston|right4=Prince|note-mid4=''1977''|to-right4=Washington, D.C. |system6=Chesapeake and Ohio |line6=Main Line|left6=Hawks Nest|right6=Prince }} | nrhp = {{Infobox NRHP | embed = yes | nrhp_type = cp | nocat = yes | name = Thurmond Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Station | image = | caption = | location = [[Thurmond, West Virginia]], [[United States|USA]] | coordinates = {{coord|37|57|26|N|81|04|44|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = West Virginia | area = | built = 1905 | architect = Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad | architecture = | added = January 27, 1984<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2008a}}</ref> | partof=[[Thurmond Historic District]] | partof_refnum = 84003520 |mpsub= | governing_body = }} }} '''Thurmond''' is a [[train station]] in [[Thurmond, West Virginia|Thurmond]], [[West Virginia]], [[United States]], that is served by [[Amtrak]], the national railroad passenger system. The ''[[Cardinal (train)|Cardinal]]'', which runs three times each week between [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]] and [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]], passes by the station three times each week in both directions, but since Thurmond is a [[Request stop|flag stop]], the trains only stop "when passengers are present, either on the train or station platform, and ticketed to and/or from this station."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.amtrak.com/ccurl/994/865/System-Timetable-Summer-Fall-2013.pdf|title=Amtrak System Timetable: Summer Fall 2013|publisher=[[Amtrak]]|format=pdf|pages=71 & 131|date=July 15, 2013|accessdate=November 19, 2013}}</ref> The station is on [[CSX Transportation]]'s New River Line and is located on the east bank of the [[New River (Kanawha River)|New River]]. It is one of Amtrak's least-busy stations, it was the second least-busy for [[fiscal year]] 2006, after [[Greenfield Village (Amtrak station)|Greenfield Village]], [[Michigan]], which was less traveled because it had been discontinued from the Amtrak regular schedule in April 2006 (being open only to groups after that point).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.timetables.org/full.php?group=20050425&item=0083|title=Amtrak System Timetable: Spring 2005 - Summer 2005|page=80|date=April 25, 2005|accessdate=November 19, 2013}}</ref> Of the 509 stations served by Amtrak in fiscal year 2012, Thurmond was again the second least-used station, just ahead of [[Sanderson (Amtrak station)|Sanderson]], [[Texas]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.greatamericanstations.com/Stations/THN|title=Great American Stations: Thurmond, WV (THN)|publisher=[[Amtrak]]|accessdate=November 19, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.greatamericanstations.com/Stations/SND|title=Great American Stations: Sanderson, TX (SND)|publisher=[[Amtrak]]|accessdate=November 19, 2013}}</ref> The long, narrow two-story slate-roofed wooden structure, built in 1905 by the [[Chesapeake and Ohio Railway]], also houses a [[railway museum|railroad museum]] and a [[visitor center]] for the [[New River Gorge National River]]. The depot features a projecting bay that served as a [[Signalling control|signal tower]]. The interior originally possessed three waiting rooms: one for [[White people|white men]], one for white women, and one for [[African American]]s.<ref>{{cite book|last=Chambers|first=S. Allen|title=Buildings of West Virginia|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|year=2004|pages=114–115|chapter=Capital Center and South Central West Virginia|isbn=0-19-516548-9}}</ref> The building was renovated in 1995. It is a contributing structure in the [[Thurmond Historic District]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wvculture.org/shpo/nr/pdf/fayette/84003520.pdf|title=National Register of Historic Places Nomination: Thurmond Historic District|last=Harper|first=R. Eugene|publisher=[[National Park Service]]|format=pdf|date=September 15, 1983|accessdate=November 19, 2013}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== *{{Commons category-inline|Thurmond (Amtrak station)}} {{Amtrak web|THN|Thurmond, WV|WESTVIRGINIA}} *[http://www.trainweb.org/usarail/thurmond.htm Thurmond Amtrak Station & Museum (USA Rail Guide -- Train Web)] *[http://www.wvrailroads.net/index.php/Thurmond_Depot_-_The_Museum Thurmond Depot - The Museum (WVRailroads.com)] *[http://www.nps.gov/neri/planyourvisit/thurmond.htm Thurmond Depot Visitor Center] - U.S. National Park Service, New River Gorge National River, official site *[http://www.greatamericanstations.com/Stations/THN Thurmond Station (Great American Stations)] *{{HAER |survey=WV-42-A |id=wv0301 |title=Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, Thurmond Depot, Northeast end of New River Bridge, Thurmond, Fayette County, WV |photos=30 |color=6 |dwgs=4 |data=79 |cap=3}} {{National Register of Historic Places}} {{authority control}} [[Category:Buildings and structures in Fayette County, West Virginia]] [[Category:Amtrak stations in West Virginia]] [[Category:Historic American Engineering Record in West Virginia]] [[Category:Railroad museums in West Virginia]] [[Category:Railway stations in the United States opened in 1905]] [[Category:New River Gorge National River]] [[Category:Museums in Fayette County, West Virginia]] [[Category:Stations along Chesapeake and Ohio Railway lines]] [[Category:Transportation in Fayette County, West Virginia]] [[Category:National Register of Historic Places in Fayette County, West Virginia]]'