Wildwood Railway Station
| Wildwood Railway Station | |
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 Derelict Wildwood Station
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| Data | |
| Platform tracks | 1 |
| location | |
| State | Florida |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 28 ° 51 '55 " N , 82 ° 2' 23" W |
| List of train stations in the United States | |
The Wildwood Station was a train station in long-distance traffic and was last of Amtrak operated. He was in Wildwood , Sumter County , Florida .
history
In 1882, the Tropical Florida Railroad , a subsidiary of the Florida Railroad , opened a railway line from Ocala to what would later become Wildwood. In 1884 the Leesburg and Indian River Railroad (L&IR) built a line to Tavares . The Florida Railroad's line was extended to Plant City in 1886 and to Tampa in 1890 .
The station itself was opened in 1947 by the Seaboard Air Line Railroad , which introduced the Silver Star on the line from New York via Wildwood to Saint Petersburg . The station and operations were taken over by Amtrak in 1971 . From 1994 to 1995 and from 1996 to 2004 the Silver Star was replaced by the Palmetto passenger train , after which passenger traffic via Wildwood was discontinued. Today, the section from Jacksonville via Wildwood to Lakeland is served by Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach's long-distance buses .
literature
- Gregg Turner: A Short History of Florida Railroads. Arcadia Publishing , Mount Pleasant 2014, ISBN 978-1-439642-54-2 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wildwood to Tavares. Retrieved September 12, 2015 .
- ↑ Wildwood, FL (WWD). (No longer available online.) Amtrak.com, archived from the original on December 10, 2015 ; Retrieved December 8, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
