Hillsborough station (North Carolina)

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Hillsborough station is a planned infill train station in Hillsborough, North Carolina, on the North Carolina Railroad. The town bought a 20-acre site around 2009 to build it. The station will be a single-story, about 8,000-square-foot building with a waiting area, an auditorium for public meetings, an attendant’s office, and a walkway to a side platform. It will also have a covered patio and sustainable features such as a green roof, natural lighting, and solar panels. An elevated greenway will pass over the tracks, connect downtown and the Hillsborough Riverwalk to the station, and lead to a future second platform via elevators. The greenway will continue south to Cates Creek Park.

Amtrak's Carolinian and Piedmont trains will serve the station when it opens, making it one of the nearest Amtrak stations to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (along with Durham).

Location: near Churton Street (old NC 86) and US 70 Business.

Timeline and cost: The project was first planned to be completed by 2015 at about $8.9 million. After delays, construction was moved to 2019–2020 with about $7.2 million budget and an estimated cost of $8.4 million. In April 2020, Hillsborough signed an interlocal agreement with GoTriangle and NCDOT; construction is now planned for 2027 with a budget of about $8.1 million.