Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The Raleigh Amtrak Station, located in Raleigh, North Carolina, is served by three passenger trains, the Silver Star, Piedmont and Carolinian. The street address is 320 West Cabarrus Street, and is located just to the southwest of downtown Raleigh.Southern Railway built the station in 1950 after leaving Union Station. The station was not used for passenger trains from 1964 to 1985, when a pending abandonment of track by CSX Transportation forced Amtrak to move there from the former Seaboard Air Line station north of downtown.The station is Amtrak's third busiest in the Southeast (North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, and Kentucky) just behind Sanford and Orlando.Because the station is small and has little parking, transportation agencies have studied a replacement station, possibly in conjunction with SEHSR or commuter rail service. On April 23, 2010, the City of Raleigh proposed an extensive multimodal transit center. The plan recycled Raleigh's old Union Station name for the project. On June 29, 2011, North Carolina DOT put forward a less costly plan that would relocate the Amtrak station to a large abandoned industrial site, sometimes called the Viaduct Building, a short distance north of the present station. The NCDOT plan focused on Amtrak's needs, with provisions to add commuter rail and SEHSR later. Construction of the new station as proposed by NCDOT has been fully funded, and the anticipated opening is in early 2017.. }
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- Raleigh_(Amtrak_station) abstract "The Raleigh Amtrak Station, located in Raleigh, North Carolina, is served by three passenger trains, the Silver Star, Piedmont and Carolinian. The street address is 320 West Cabarrus Street, and is located just to the southwest of downtown Raleigh.Southern Railway built the station in 1950 after leaving Union Station. The station was not used for passenger trains from 1964 to 1985, when a pending abandonment of track by CSX Transportation forced Amtrak to move there from the former Seaboard Air Line station north of downtown.The station is Amtrak's third busiest in the Southeast (North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, and Kentucky) just behind Sanford and Orlando.Because the station is small and has little parking, transportation agencies have studied a replacement station, possibly in conjunction with SEHSR or commuter rail service. On April 23, 2010, the City of Raleigh proposed an extensive multimodal transit center. The plan recycled Raleigh's old Union Station name for the project. On June 29, 2011, North Carolina DOT put forward a less costly plan that would relocate the Amtrak station to a large abandoned industrial site, sometimes called the Viaduct Building, a short distance north of the present station. The NCDOT plan focused on Amtrak's needs, with provisions to add commuter rail and SEHSR later. Construction of the new station as proposed by NCDOT has been fully funded, and the anticipated opening is in early 2017.".