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| Address | 800 North Washington Street Marshall, TX 75670 |
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| Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 1912 | ||||||||||
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| Code | MHL | ||||||||||
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| Passengers (2011) | 9,021[1] 3.6% | ||||||||||
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The Texas and Pacific Railroad Depot in Marshall, Texas houses the Marshall Amtrak Station. Amtrak, the national railroad passenger system, operates the Texas Eagle through Marshall each day, with service north to Chicago and west-southwest to Dallas, San Antonio and Los Angeles.
The ticket office in Marshall is staffed 7 days a week from 7am to 4pm, and 4:30pm to 8:30pm.
Of the 19 Texas stations served by Amtrak, Marshall was the ninth-busiest in FY2010, boarding or detraining an average of approximately 24 passengers daily.[2]
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The Texas & Pacific Depot, commonly referred to as the T&P Depot, is the only surviving structure of the Texas and Pacific Railway shops complex which originally consisted of fifty-seven buildings spanning 66 acres (270,000 m2).
The T&P Depot is located in the Ginocchio National Historic District and was built in 1912 to house the T&P passenger station and the headquarters of railroad's eastern district. The building welcomed soldiers in both World War I and World War II, and at its height housed telegraph and immigration offices.
During the 1970s a series of events lead to the station being abandoned. Amtrak passenger trains used the building beginning in 1974, however in 1988 the Union Pacific Railroad, which owned the property, filed for a permit to demolish the building. The community intervened and throughout the 1990s worked to save the Depot and the building was restored and resumed service as the local train station; however, much of the building houses the Texas & Pacific Railway Museum.
An old engine was recently moved to the depot from where it had been standing in City Park and restoration work is beginning on it.
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