Coordinates: 31°34′59″N 90°26′28″W / 31.58306°N 90.44111°W / 31.58306; -90.44111

Godbold Transportation Center

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Godbold Transportation Center
File:Godbold Transportation Center.jpg
The Transportation Center in January 2023
General information
Location440 North Railroad Avenue
Brookhaven, Mississippi
United States
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Owned byCity of Brookhaven
LineIllinois Central (CN)
Platforms1 side platform
Tracks1
Other information
Station codeAmtrak code: BRH
History
Opened1907 (Union Station)
2011 (Transportation Center)
Passengers
FY 20244,010[1] (Amtrak)
Services
Preceding station File:BSicon LOGO Amtrak2.svg Amtrak Following station
McComb
toward New Orleans
 City of New Orleans Hazlehurst
toward Chicago
Former services
Preceding station Illinois Central Railroad Following station
Hartman
toward New Orleans
 Main Line Montgomery
toward Chicago
Location
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The Godbold Transportation Center is a train station in Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States, served by Amtrak's City of New Orleans passenger train.

The facility is located in the town's old power plant, originally constructed in 1890. Renovation plans called for partial demolition of the power plant, but the soaring smokestack was retained as a symbol of the building's industrial heritage. Large expanses of glass on the principal elevations allow natural light to flood the waiting room. The wooden benches used by passengers were once located in the old Illinois Central depot.[2]

History

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Postcard of the former Brookhaven Union Station built by Illinois Central Railroad, now a military museum

Brookhaven was a hub between the Illinois Central (formerly the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern), the Brookhaven and Pearl River Railroad, the Mississippi Central, and the Meridian, Brookhaven, and Natchez Railroad. In 1907, Illinois Central constructed the Union Station and freight house in downtown Brookhaven. Designed by F. D. Chase, the Tudor-revival brick building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[2]

The old station building, located at 125 South Whitworth Avenue,(Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.) is now occupied by the Military Memorial Museum.[3]

Godbold Transportation Center, named after a former Brookhaven Mayor Bill Godbold,[4] opened in 2011. This replaced a small shelter beside the old depot building that had been used by Amtrak.

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