Clemson, SC | |||||||||||||
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 Station building, built in 1916 and moved back from the right-of-way in 2001 | |||||||||||||
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| Location | 1105 Tiger Boulevard Clemson, South Carolina United States | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°41′28″N82°49′57″W / 34.6910°N 82.8325°W /34.6910; -82.8325 | ||||||||||||
| Owned by | City of Clemson | ||||||||||||
| Line | Greenville District | ||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1side platform | ||||||||||||
| Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Connections | Clemson Area Transit | ||||||||||||
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| Structure type | At-grade | ||||||||||||
| Parking | Yes; free | ||||||||||||
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| Status | Unstaffed | ||||||||||||
| Station code | Amtrak:CSN | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
| Opened | 1916 | ||||||||||||
| Previous names | Calhoun | ||||||||||||
| Original company | Southern Railway | ||||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||||
| FY 2024 | 4,533[1] (Amtrak) | ||||||||||||
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Clemson station is a train station inClemson, South Carolina. It is served by theCrescent passenger train ofAmtrak, the national passenger rail service. The station sits on the corner ofCalhoun Memorial Highway andCollege Avenue in the heart of downtown Clemson. Clemson is situated on one of the nation's emerginghigh-speed rail corridors, known as theSoutheast High Speed Rail Corridor or SEHSR.
The station was originally erected by theSouthern Railway in 1916. In the early 1960s, R.C. Edwards, thenClemson University president, convincedD.W. Brosnan, president of the Southern at the time, to prefer Clemson overSeneca as the main station for the area. On January 31, 1979, the Southern discontinued passenger service, turning operations of theCrescent over toAmtrak. In 2016 the station closed for construction on a nearby intersection. AnAmtrak Thruway bus transferred Clemson passengers toGreenville.[2]
Amtrak'sCrescent resumed normal service at Clemson station on August 1, 2019.[3]
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