Athens station is a historic railroad building in Athens, Ohio, proximate to Ohio University. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on January 11, 1983 as the Athens B & O Train Depot. The path of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad tracks went past this site, before they were removed and the tracks area made a parking lot.

Athens, OH
Former Athens station building in 2009
History
Closed	October 1, 1981 (1981-10-01)[1]
Rebuilt	October 30, 1976 (Amtrak)[2][3]
Former services
Preceding station Amtrak Following station Chillicothe toward Cincinnati (River Road) Shenandoah Parkersburg toward Washington, D.C. Preceding station Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Following station Grosvenor toward St. Louis St. Louis Line Canaanville toward Cumberland
Athens B & O Train Depot
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Athens, Ohio
Coordinates	39°19′44″N 82°6′21″W
Architectural style	Stick-Eastlake[4]
NRHP reference No.	83001944[4]
Added to NRHP	January 11, 1983[4]

This building is currently under lease to a private concern.

In most of its years of service, it was a stop on the Baltimore and Ohio's direct route between Washington, D.C. and Cincinnati. It served the daily B&O trains, Diplomat (St. Louis - Jersey City, NJ) and National Limited (St. Louis - Jersey City, NJ).[5] In the last years leading to B&O's yielding routes to Amtrak in 1971, the B&O's Metropolitan (shortened and rerouted: Cincinnati - Washington, D.C.) made stops at Athens station.[6]

The station was used by Amtrak's Shenandoah (Cincinnati - Washington, D.C.), operating between 1976 and 1981.[7]

References

External links

• Media related to Athens B & O Train Depot at Wikimedia Commons
• Ohio Railroad Structures, by William Eric McFadden

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