Bristol Train Station

Rail reached Bristol in 1856. The station that stands today came later: built in 1902 by the Norfolk and Western at a cost of $79,000, a one- to two-story brick structure combining Romanesque with European vernacular modes — what the architectural record calls early 20th-century American eclecticism. Passenger trains stopped coming in 1971. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. Freight still rolls past. The Foundation that runs it now is waiting for passenger rail to return.