by SouthernRailway
For the opposite of the “stations with surging ridership since the start of Amtrak” thread:
What stations are still in service but have ridership that has plummeted under Amtrak?
I’d vote for Greenville, South Carolina:
The Crescent is a shorter train than it was before Amtrak, so it simply can’t fit as many riders as it used to.
The northbound Crescent arrives later at night than it used to, and timekeeping is poor.
The station is now unstaffed.
My grandfather told me about the Southern Railway having a set-out sleeper in Greenville in the 1950s: you could board the sleeper just sitting there in the station and the train (I’d guess the Crescent) would attach it when the train arrived. And there were numerous passenger trains through Greenville. But now it seems as though 1 or 2 sleeping car passengers per train in Greenville (2 to 4 per day, with 2 trains) seems typical.
Any similar stations?
What stations are still in service but have ridership that has plummeted under Amtrak?
I’d vote for Greenville, South Carolina:
The Crescent is a shorter train than it was before Amtrak, so it simply can’t fit as many riders as it used to.
The northbound Crescent arrives later at night than it used to, and timekeeping is poor.
The station is now unstaffed.
My grandfather told me about the Southern Railway having a set-out sleeper in Greenville in the 1950s: you could board the sleeper just sitting there in the station and the train (I’d guess the Crescent) would attach it when the train arrived. And there were numerous passenger trains through Greenville. But now it seems as though 1 or 2 sleeping car passengers per train in Greenville (2 to 4 per day, with 2 trains) seems typical.
Any similar stations?