The Train Depot

The 1911 built Garibaldi P&N depot. Who's name was later changed to Belmont Junction. Was built circa 1911. By prominent charlotte architect Charles Christian hook it was built to almost the same specs as the depot in mount holly. Only differance wasthe size. The interior consented of the whites only waiting room with a pot belly stove and ticket window with benches. A wall once divided the whites only waiting room from the colored waiting room which has a seperate door on the side of the station. In frount of the colored waiting room was the ticket office/telegraph office as well as the station masters office . Then u went up a set of stairs and into the fraight room which u believe once contained a fraight scale there most likely would have been a cast concrete bench at the end of the depot under what is now the concrete fraight platform. The station was used until 1951 when passenger service on the P&N was discontinued fraight was still handled there I belive until the P&N was absorbed into the seaboard in 69