Hamlet Station was originally built in 1900 by the
Seaboard Air Line Railroad as both a passenger station and a division headquarters. In addition to serving the Seaboard's mainline trains between Richmond and Florida (including the and ), the station served until 1969 the
Silver Comet to Birmingham. Until 1958, the SAL operated a daily passenger train from
Wilmington, North Carolina, to
Charlotte via Hamlet and Monroe. The station was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places on November 19, 1971 as the
Seaboard Air Line Passenger Depot. On November 10, 2024, the
Silver Star was merged with the as the
Floridian. ==References==