The Winter Haven Amtrak station is a train station in Winter Haven, Florida, United States served by Amtrak, the national railroad passenger system. It was originally built in 1925 by the Seaboard Air Line Railway, and rebuilt in 1947. It included a freight depot which was located on the south side of the station until 1982, and was torn down after Seaboard Coast Line Railroad merged with Louisville and Nashville Railroad. Abandoned tracks cross the platform on the south side of the station.
Famous quotes containing the words winter and/or haven:
“Yet still the miracles
Exhume in each face
Strong silken seed,
That to the static
Gold winter sun throws back
Endless and cloudless pride.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir
Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine,”
—John Masefield (1878–1967)