Longview station
Longview, TX
A baggage cart outside Longview in 2008.
General information
Location905 Pacific Avenue
Longview, Texas
United States
Coordinates32°29′39″N 94°43′40″W / 32.494144°N 94.727680°W / 32.494144; -94.727680
Owned byCity of Longview
Line(s)Union Pacific Railroad
Platforms1 side platform
Tracks2
ConnectionsBus transport Amtrak Thruway
Other information
Station codeAmtrak: LVW
History
Opened1940
Passengers
FY 202223,412[1] (Amtrak)
Services
Preceding station Amtrak Following station
Mineola
toward Los Angeles or San Antonio
 Texas Eagle Marshall
toward Chicago
Former services
Preceding station Amtrak Following station
Dallas
toward Laredo or Houston
 Inter-American Marshall
toward Chicago
Preceding station Missouri Pacific Railroad Following station
Greggton
toward El Paso
 Texas and Pacific Railway Main Line Hallsville
toward New Orleans
Kilgore
toward Galveston
 Galveston – Longview Terminus
Official nameLongview Train Depot
Designated2014
Reference no.17982
Location
Longview Station is located in Texas
Longview Station
Longview Station
Location within Texas
Longview Station is located in the United States
Longview Station
Longview Station
Longview Station (the United States)

Longview station is a train station in Longview, Texas, United States. It is served by Amtrak and was originally built by the Texas & Pacific Railway.

The Longview station also serves as the train-bus transfer point for passengers destined to two Amtrak Thruway motorcoach routes. One route provides Texas Eagle connecting service to Nacogdoches, Houston and Galveston, Texas; the other route provides connecting nonstop service between Longview and Shreveport, Louisiana.

Opened in 1940, the red brick depot replaced an 1874 structure. Its Colonial Revival style, popular in the early 20th century, includes stylized quoins, brick cornice and grey stone trim used to highlight the coping, keystones and lintels. In its heyday, it ran several Missouri Pacific and Texas & Pacific trains a day, notably those companies' original Texas Eagle (ended, 1971), which west and south of Longview split into three different sections for different parts of Texas. Until 1963 the Louisiana Eagle went east to Shreveport and New Orleans.[2][3] A successor night train and a successor day train ran on the route to New Orleans as late as 1968.[4]

In early 2013, the city broke ground on a $2.2 million project to transform the depot into a multimodal transportation center. During the renovation, workers installed new dormers and the open-air waiting room was recreated. The project was largely funded through a Transportation Enhancement grant from the Federal Highway Administration, matched by city funds.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2022: State of Texas" (PDF). Amtrak. June 2023. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
  2. ↑ "Missouri Pacific Lines, Tables 4, 5". Official Guide of the Railways. National Railway Publication Company. 94 (8). January 1962.
  3. ↑ "Texas & Pacific Railway". Official Guide of the Railways. National Railway Publication Company. 94 (8). January 1962.
  4. ↑ "Missouri Pacific Lines, Table 2". Official Guide of the Railways. National Railway Publication Company. 101 (1). June 1968.
  5. ↑ "Longview, Texas". Great American Stations. Retrieved 20 October 2014.

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