White River Junction historic depot
— — a small platform that used to hear fifty trains a day.
Not only on a wall.
“A red-brick depot on the edge of downtown White River Junction, the spot where the White River joins the Connecticut and where two railroads, the Boston & Maine and the Central Vermont, used to thread the eastern hills. The Amtrak Vermonter still calls once a day in each direction. The waiting room keeps its dark wood and its slow clock. From the studio.
White River Junction historic depot, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
White River Junction is a village in the town of Hartford, Vermont, at the confluence of the White and Connecticut Rivers and directly across the water from Lebanon, New Hampshire. The current Union Station, a red-brick depot in a stripped Colonial Revival form, was built in 1937 to replace an earlier wooden station lost to fire. At its peak in the early twentieth century the junction handled dozens of trains a day, joining the Boston & Maine and the Central Vermont systems. Today Amtrak's Vermonter calls once daily in each direction on its run between St. Albans and Washington.
The settlement grew with the railroads. The Connecticut & Passumpsic Rivers Railroad reached the junction in 1848; within a decade four lines crossed here and the village had eclipsed the older town centres of Hartford and Norwich. The 1937 depot replaced a wooden structure that burned and was designed to anchor a downtown that already included the Hotel Coolidge, named for the president's father, who liked to lunch there between trains. Freight traffic has thinned over the decades but the brick face and the long platform remain in active use.
The depot stands at the corner of Railroad Row and South Main Street in downtown White River Junction, walking distance from the Northern Stage theatre, the Tip Top Building artist studios, and the Center for Cartoon Studies. Amtrak's Vermonter arrives southbound near midday and northbound in late afternoon; the waiting room is open daily. The Hotel Coolidge across the street has operated continuously since 1924. Free parking sits across the tracks. Lebanon, New Hampshire, and Dartmouth College in Hanover are a short drive across the Connecticut River.