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Quietest national network station in 2023 - USA style
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Quietest national network station in 2023 - USA style
Posted by grahame at 14:43, 26th October 2024
 
From the Independent

A sparsely populated town in Texas is home to the least-used Amtrak train station in America, only receiving 247 passengers within a year.

The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, better known as Amtrak, spans across 21,000 route miles in 46 states in the US, operating more than 300 trains a day.

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In Amtrak data analysed by MailOnline, it was revealed that Sanderson, an area in Terrell County, Texas, with a population of only around 700 people, received 247 passengers at its station in 2023.

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Despite its low passenger use, the station got a $3m makeover in 2021, with a new open-air shelter, concrete platform and walkways to make the station more accessible.

The station is served six times a week, westbound and eastbound, by the long-distance Sunset Limited train that runs from New Orleans to San Antonio, then to Los Angeles for a 48-hour-long journey, as well as the 32-hour Texas Eagle, which departs from Chicago on its way to Los Angeles.

While only a small town, Sanderson has come to be known as the “Cactus Capital of Texas”, and is also an important livestock grazing center.

Re: Quietest national network station in 2023 - USA style
Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 17:29, 26th October 2024
 
From the Independent

A sparsely populated town in Texas is home to the least-used Amtrak train station in America, only receiving 247 passengers within a year.

The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, better known as Amtrak, spans across 21,000 route miles in 46 states in the US, operating more than 300 trains a day.

[snip]

In Amtrak data analysed by MailOnline, it was revealed that Sanderson, an area in Terrell County, Texas, with a population of only around 700 people, received 247 passengers at its station in 2023.

[snip]

Despite its low passenger use, the station got a $3m makeover in 2021, with a new open-air shelter, concrete platform and walkways to make the station more accessible.

The station is served six times a week, westbound and eastbound, by the long-distance Sunset Limited train that runs from New Orleans to San Antonio, then to Los Angeles for a 48-hour-long journey, as well as the 32-hour Texas Eagle, which departs from Chicago on its way to Los Angeles.

While only a small town, Sanderson has come to be known as the “Cactus Capital of Texas”, and is also an important livestock grazing center.

... a new open-air shelter ...

In other words, a roof with no sides. 

This at a location where the annual rainfall is 41 inches, and there is less than one passenger a day. 

That was $3m well spent, then.

Re: Quietest national network station in 2023 - USA style
Posted by eightonedee at 17:32, 26th October 2024
 
So it's not just the UK where it seems to cost a fortune to build anything on a railway....

Re: Quietest national network station in 2023 - USA style
Posted by Oxonhutch at 18:42, 26th October 2024
 
In other words, a roof with no sides. 

Cactus capital of Texas. Think shade!

Re: Quietest national network station in 2023 - USA style
Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 18:49, 26th October 2024
 
Instead of air conditioning? 

 
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