Purcellville Train Station is a historic railway station located at Purcellville, Loudoun County, Virginia adjacent Washington and Old Dominion (W&OD) Trail. The Southern Railway constructed the station in 1904. The station is a one-story, rectangular frame building with a hipped roof and deeply overhanging eaves supported by triangular knee braces. It was a station on the Washington and Old Dominion Railway and later, the Washington and Old Dominion Railroad from 1912 until the line closed in 1968, with passenger service ceasing in 1951.
The Purcellville Preservation Association restored the station in 2002. The town of Purcellville maintains the station as a public meeting facility, museum, and public restrooms, under the purview of the town's Train Station Steering & Oversight Committee. The station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 28, 2010.
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