Style: | Amtrak |
Biloxi, MS | |
Coordinates: | 30.3989°N -88.8915°W |
Platform: | 1 |
Tracks: | 1 |
Passengers: | 0 |
Pass Year: | 2007 |
Pass Percent: | 0 |
Opened: | April 29, 1984 March 31, 1993 |
Closed: | January 6, 1985 August 28, 2005 |
Status: | Closed |
Code: | BIX |
Other Services2 Header: | Future services |
Other Services Header: | Former services |
Other Services Collapsible: | yes |
Mapframe: | yes |
Mapframe-Marker: | rail |
Mapframe-Zoom: | 14 |
Biloxi station is a closed and unstaffed Amtrak intercity train station in Biloxi, Mississippi. There is no station building; there is only a covered platform. The station is across the street from the Biloxi Transit Center, which serves Coast Transit Authority and Greyhound buses.
Amtrak service to Biloxi began with the Gulf Coast Limited, which operated between 1984 and 1985.[1] [2] The stop was reactivated on March 31, 1993 in service on the Sunset Limited.[3] Damage to the rail line resulting from Hurricane Katrina in 2005 caused Amtrak to suspend service east of New Orleans,[4] including at Biloxi.
Into the late 1960s, at another Biloxi station, the Louisville & Nashville operated the daily trains, Gulf Wind (New Orleans - Jacksonville), Pan-American (New Orleans - Cincinnati) and Humming Bird (New Orleans - Cincinnati), as well as an additional unnamed day train (New Orleans - Jacksonville).[5] Additionally, the Southern Railway operated the Crescent and Piedmont Limited (both: New Orleans - New York) through that station.[6]