Longview station

Train station in Longview, Texas

This article is about the Amtrak station in Longview, Texas. For the Amtrak station serving Longview, Washington, see Kelso Multimodal Transportation Center.

Longview station

Longview, TX

A baggage cart outside Longview in 2008.

General information
Location| 905 Pacific Avenue
Longview, Texas
United States
Coordinates| 32°29′39″N 94°43′40″W﻿ / ﻿32.494144°N 94.727680°W﻿ / 32.494144; -94.727680
Owned by| City of Longview
Line(s)| Union Pacific Railroad
Platforms| 1 side platform
Tracks| 2
Connections|  Amtrak Thruway
Other information
Station code| Amtrak: LVW
History
Opened| 1940
Passengers
FY 2023| 44,876[1] (Amtrak)
Services
| Preceding station  |  Amtrak | Following station

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Mineola

toward Los Angeles or San Antonio

|  | Texas Eagle |  | Marshall

toward Chicago

Former services

| Preceding station  |  Amtrak | Following station

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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

Proposed services

| Preceding station  |  Amtrak | Following station

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Mineola

toward Fort Worth

|  | Crescent

Proposed Texas Section

|  | Marshall

toward New York

Recorded Texas Historic Landmark

Official name| Longview Train Depot
Designated| 2014
Reference no.| 17982

Location

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

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* Trains portal
* History portal
* Texas portal

* Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks in Gregg County

## References

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1. ^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2023: State of Texas" (PDF). Amtrak. March 2024. Retrieved June 30, 2024.
2. ^ "Missouri Pacific Lines, Tables 4, 5". Official Guide of the Railways. 94 (8). National Railway Publication Company. January 1962.
3. ^ "Texas & Pacific Railway". Official Guide of the Railways. 94 (8). National Railway Publication Company. January 1962.
4. ^ "Missouri Pacific Lines, Table 2". Official Guide of the Railways. 101 (1). National Railway Publication Company. June 1968.
5. ^ "Longview, Texas". Great American Stations. Archived from the original on October 20, 2014. Retrieved October 20, 2014.

## External links

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Media related to Longview (Amtrak station) at Wikimedia Commons

* Longview, TX – Amtrak
* Longview, TX – Station history at Great American Stations (Amtrak)
* Longview, TX – Texas Eagle (Amtrak) Archived 2007-06-12 at the Wayback Machine
* Longview Amtrak Station (USA Rail Guide -- Train Web)

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Longview, Texas

Education|

| K-12|

* Longview ISD
* Longview HS
* Pine Tree ISD
* Pine Tree HS
* Spring Hill ISD
* Spring Hill HS
* Hallsville ISD

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Tertiary|

* LeTourneau University
* Kilgore College Longview Campus
* University of Texas at Tyler Longview University Center

Media|

* Longview News-Journal
* KLGV-LD

Transportation|

* Longview station
* East Texas Regional Airport (in an unincorporated area near Longview)

History|

* Longview race riot

This list is incomplete.

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Amtrak stations in Texas

Active stations|

* Alpine
* Austin
* Beaumont
* Cleburne
* Dallas
* Del Rio
* El Paso
* Fort Worth Central
* Gainesville
* Houston
* Longview
* Marshall
* McGregor
* Mineola
* San Antonio
* San Marcos
* Sanderson
* Taylor
* Temple
* Texarkana

Former stations|

* Brenham
* College Station
* Corsicana
* Fort Worth GC&SF
* Houston Union
* Laredo
* Rosenberg

Canceled stations|

* Arlington

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