Cleburne Intermodal Transportation Depot

Cleburne Intermodal Transportation Depot
Location 206 North Border Street
Cleburne, Texas, 76031
United States
Coordinates 32°20′59″N 97°22′56″W / 32.34972°N 97.38222°W / 32.34972; -97.38222Coordinates: 32°20′59″N 97°22′56″W / 32.34972°N 97.38222°W / 32.34972; -97.38222
Owned by City of Cleburne
Line(s) BNSF Railway
Platforms 1 side platform
Tracks 2
Connections Cletran[1]
Construction
Parking free short-term
Other information
Station code Amtrak code: CBR
History
Opened 1898
Rebuilt 1999
Traffic
Passengers (2014) 3,322[2] Decrease 19.8%
Services
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station
Texas Eagle
toward Chicago
  Former services  
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe
Joshua
toward Purcell
GC&SF Rlwy.
Main Line
Rio Vista
toward Galveston
TerminusCleburne – Paris
Keene
toward Paris

The Cleburne Intermodal Transportation Depot is an Amtrak train station in Cleburne, Texas, United States.

History

TBV and Santa Fe depots in 1910

For many years, Cleburne was the site of a major locomotive backshop of the Santa Fe Railroad, and many shop buildings can be seen on the east side of the track. The 1898 two-story brick depot was scaled down to one floor and ultimately demolished during the 1990s to make way for a road improvement project.[3]

Cleburne became the northern end of the Trinity and Brazos Valley Railway in 1904,[4] with the portion from Teague now abandoned.

Cleburne's current intermodal station, built in 1999, serves Amtrak trains and is the office for Cletran,[1] the local bus transit. In recent history, the station has become less prestigious and the surrounding buildings have become mostly abandoned.[5] The depot no longer has an Amtrak agent and tickets can be purchased from the conductor on board the train.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "City / County Transportation (Cletran)". City of Cleburne. Retrieved December 2015.
  2. ↑ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2014, State of Texas" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2014. Retrieved 22 February 2015.
  3. ↑ Evan Werkema. "Some Recent Losses: Depots". Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Subjects. Retrieved December 2015. Cleburne, TX once sported a large two-story brick depot. The structure was later reduced to this rather modest, unadorned edifice.
  4. ↑ Nancy Beck Young. "Trinity and Brazos Valley Railway". The Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved December 2015.
  5. ↑ "Cleburne Downtown Master Plan Report - Final". City of Cleburne. July 2014. Retrieved December 2015. Much of the eastern quadrant is vacant and contains the intermodal rail station.

External links

Media related to Cleburne station at Wikimedia Commons


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