Abandoned Train Station | Rhode Island

A ghost station is a place that trains pass by or under without ever stopping. They used to be bustling transportation hubs, but now sit quietly and for the most part forgotten. This is one of those ghost stations, and it’s a big one, located in Rhode Island.

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This station was built in 1916 at the peak of of industrial and population growth in this area, and it followed a fresh type of design. This one was built with pedestrian safety in mind, with the tracks constructed below and station above. This way you couldn’t just wander onto the tracks.

The station itself was designed by F.W. Mellor. architect for the New Haven Railroad. Mellor oversaw the railroad's early-twentieth-century reconstruction program, and even worked on Grand Central in New York City.

This beauty is 30,000 square feet, made up of brick and granite… and lemme tell you, it was poppin back in the day.

70,000 - that was the average number of passengers per month at this place…with up to 79 trains passing through every day. The crazy part was that this was all local traffic - lines stopping here didn’t go to the major hubs. You’d have to transfer down the line in Providence if you wanted to do that.

Don’t believe the hype? In 1952, Dwight Eisenhower even stopped here on his campaign trail. That alone tells you the draw this place had at one point.

The station sits above what is known today as Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor. It was a major social hub, so of course it had a lot to offer. If we check out the original floor plan, you can see it’s got two levels; the upper level housed the massive waiting room along with a barber shop, restaurant, ticket office, and baggage areas. The lower level is the outdoor track level with two island platforms providing access to all four tracks.

The reason it closed in 1959 was because it was already falling into disrepair…and that just continued, even with the new owners and a flea market in the 70s. By 1981, when service and all activity here completely stopped, it was in even worse shape.

There were efforts to save this place. In 1984 the station was considered for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places, but The Review Board voted unanimously to de-fer consideration of the prOperty pending the performance and report of a study of the railroad station’s structural integrity. So it was denied, the station was cleaned up a bit and inspected… There is good news though - In 1997 was labeled a "significant property" and has been formally determined eligible for listing in the National Register, which does provide it some protections.

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