Union Station (Winston-Salem, North Carolina)
Union Station is a historic train station, currently serving as a bus station, located in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina.

History 
The station was built to service the Southern, Norfolk and Western and Winston-Salem Southbound Railways. It was designed by Fellhimer & Wagner and built between 1924 and 1926. It is a one to three story, banked Beaux-Arts style steel frame building faced with brick and limestone. It consists of a rectangular main body, five bays wide and eight bays deep, with a large square east wing.  The front facade features a limestone portico supported by paired heroic columns with stylized Corinthian order capitals. Surrounding the building are some surviving original landscape features. The station served as the city's sole passenger train station between 1926 and 1970.

The station was sold to Harvey Davis in 1975, and he converted the building into an automobile repair business called Davis Garage.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

Winston-Salem acquired the building in 2012 through eminent-domain, with a long term goal of reestablishing passenger train service to the city. In 2018 the city hired Walter Robbs Callahan & Pierce Architects and New Atlantic Contracting to restore the station, and it had a grand reopening on September 7th, 2019.

Services 
Union Station currently serves as a secondary bus hub for the Winston-Salem Transit Authority, after the Clark Campbell Transportation Center.  

PART's Route 1 stops at the station, and in conjunction with PART's Route 3, serves as an Amtrak Thruway connector to High Point station.

Station layout 
The station has three levels, with the highest level at-grade with Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive and the lowest level along Norfolk Southern Railway's K-Line. 

The street level, historically known as the concourse level, has the station's waiting room.
The middle level is unoccupied, and the city intends on leasing out the space.
The city signaling center occupies the station's lowest floor.

References

External links 

Local Historic Landmark Program - Union Station

Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
Beaux-Arts architecture in North Carolina
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1926
Buildings and structures in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Winston-Salem
Former Norfolk and Western Railway stations
Former railway stations in North Carolina
Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach stations in North Carolina