But by the time they arrived at her destination, she had vanished. In later years, travelers on the highway on occasion reported being flagged down at that spot by a young girl looking for a ride home. I well remember reading Nancy Robert’s book An Illustrated Guide to Ghosts & Mysterious Occurrences in the Old North State when I was a little boy, and being fascinated by the story of the “lovely apparition” of a girl dressed in white who occasionally appears to passers-by near the old Highway 70 underpass at Jamestown.Īccording to Roberts, the story goes back to 1923 when poor Lydia was killed in an automobile accident near that underpass on her way home from a dance in Raleigh. Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No.Since Halloween is approaching, I thought it would be a good time to share something I found a few years ago which just might be the basis for Guilford County’s best-known ghost story, that of “Lydia.”.Erie Railroad Station - Jamestown, New York - Train Stations/Depots on.Media related to Jamestown Gateway Train Station at Wikimedia Commons ^ Jamestown, NY - Bus Stop (JMN) Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach.^ "25-Year Development Odyssey: The National Comedy Center Finds a Home in Jamestown's Historic Train Station"."Railroad station restored in Jamestown". ^ "National Register Information System".New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Erie Railroad Station". ^ "New Erie Rail Station Opened at Jamestown".^ "Erie Railroad of Days Long Gone By Recalled by Old Photograph".^ "List of Station Names and Numbers".
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However, it is a stop for Amtrak's Thruway Motorcoach buses at a Chautauqua Area Regional Transportation Service bus shelter taking commuters to Buffalo's Exchange Street Station. The station provides no Amtrak or commuter rail service. The Chautauqua Area Regional Transit System (CARTS) and Coach USA use the facility. The Jamestown station and surrounding area is now part of the National Comedy Center, which was opened in 2018. In 2017, the National Comedy Center took over ownership of the station from the city and its associated agencies. At this point the station was re-named the Jamestown Gateway Station. Upon completion of the $12 million (2012 USD) restoration, the restored station was opened to the public on October 26, 2012. Senator Charles Schumer announced grant monies to help restore the station as a commercial and transit hub on August 23, 2010.
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It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003 as the Erie Railroad Station. In 1992, the Jamestown Urban Renewal Agency took ownership of the station with $120,000 in funding from the federal Community Development Block Grant program. The station passed to private ownership and was slowly stripped of salvageable materials. Local railroad offices continued to occupy the building. On ApErie Lackawanna became part of the Conrail system, which was taken over in turn by CSX Transportation and the Norfolk Southern Railway on June 1, 1999. The last trains to use the station were the Atlantic Express/ Pacific Express (discontinued, 1965) and the Lake Cities (discontinued, January 1970). It passed on to successor Erie Lackawanna in 1960 and continued to serve as a station for the railroad's long distance trains operating between Hoboken and Chicago. The station was constructed in 1931–32 for the Erie Railroad as a replacement for a much older station.