Bingen–White Salmon station explained

Style:Amtrak
Bingen–White Salmon, WA
Country:United States
Coordinates:45.7151°N -121.4688°W
Connections: Mount Adams Transportation Service[1]
Tracks:2
Parking:Yes
Opened:December 15, 1907 (Portland and Seattle Railway)
October 25, 1981[2]
Rebuilt:1992
Accessible:Yes
Other Services Header:Former services
Other Services Collapsible:yes
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Marker:rail
Mapframe-Zoom:14

Bingen–White Salmon is a train station in Bingen, Washington served by Amtrak. The unstaffed station is part of a larger BNSF dispatch center located one block south of Stuben Street (SR 14) in Bingen. The building is orangish-yellow in color.

Rail service through Bingen and nearby White Salmon began on December 15, 1907, when regular service began on the Portland and Seattle Railway.[3] The station was named after both Bingen and nearby White Salmon by a court order in 1910,[4] and formally introduced in 1930 by the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway.[5] The current station was built in 1992.[5]

Boardings and alightings

Year 2011[6] 2012[7] 2013[8] 2014[9] 2015[10] 2016[11] 2017[12] 2018 [13]
Total2,420 3,147 3,629 2,867 3,081 3,691 3,825 3,272
Difference- 727 482 -762 214 610 134 -553
Difference %- 30.04% 15.32% -21.00% 7.46% 19.80% 3.63% -14.5%

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Fixed Route Service . July 1, 2021 . April 4, 2022 . Klickikat County.
  2. Web site: Amtrak Timetable Changes - Effective October 1, 1981 . timetables.org . Amtrak . November 22, 2018 . 6 . October 1, 1981.
  3. News: Portland & Seattle Railway Starts Regular Trains Today . January 19, 2020 . . December 15, 1907 . 45 . Newspapers.com.
  4. Book: December 1910 . Fifth Annual Report of the Railroad Commission of Washington . 131 . E. L. Boardman . Olympia, Washington . Google Books . February 24, 2018.
  5. Web site: Bingen-White Salmon, WA (BNG) . Great American Stations . Amtrak . February 24, 2018.
  6. Web site: Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2011: State of Washington . . November 2011 . 1 . January 6, 2015.
  7. Web site: Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2012: State of Washington . . November 2012 . 1 . January 6, 2015.
  8. Web site: Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2013: State of Washington . . November 2013 . 1 . January 6, 2015.
  9. Web site: Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2014: State of Washington . . November 2014 . 1 . January 12, 2016.
  10. Web site: Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2015: State of Washington . . November 2015 . 1 . January 12, 2016.
  11. Web site: Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2016, State of Washington. . November 2016 . January 17, 2017.
  12. Web site: Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2017, State of Washington. amtrak.com. Amtrak. Nov 2017. July 16, 2018.
  13. Web site: Fact sheet: Amtrak in Washington. amtrak.com. Amtrak. 2018. June 18, 2019.

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