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Newton station (Kansas)

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Newton, KS

North side of depot in 2007

General information

Location

414 North Main Street
Newton, Kansas

Owned by

Crossroads Lumber Co., Inc.

Line(s)

BNSF La Junta Subdivision

Platforms

1side platform, 1 island platform

Tracks

Construction

Accessible

Yes

Other information

Station code

Amtrak: NEW

History

Opened

October 9, 1930^[1]

Rebuilt

2008

Passengers

FY 2023

16,772^[2] (Amtrak)

Services

Preceding station	Amtrak			Following station
Hutchinson toward Los Angeles		Southwest Chief		Topeka toward Chicago

Former services

Preceding station	Amtrak		Following station
Wichita toward DallasorHouston		Lone Star	Emporia toward Chicago
Preceding station	Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway		Following station
Halstead toward Los Angeles		Main Line	Walton toward Chicago
Terminus		Newton–Purcell	Sedgwick toward Purcell

Santa Fe Depot (Newton Station)

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Location

Newton, Kansas, US

Coordinates

38°02′50″N 97°20′40″W / 38.0471°N 97.3444°W

Built

1929

Architect

E.H. Harrison & M. R. Stauffer

Architectural style

Tudor Revival

NRHP reference No.

85000735

Added to NRHP

1985

Location

Newton station is a train station in Newton, Kansas, United States, served by Amtrak'sSouthwest Chief train. It is the nearest station to Kansas' largest city, Wichita.

The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway opened to Newton in 1930. The current station building was constructed in a Tudor Revival – modeled after William Shakespeare's house in Stratford-on-Avon – in 1929–30. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.^[3] In 2021, Amtrak proposed to extend the Heartland Flyer to Newton to connect with the Southwest Chief.^[4]

References[edit]

^ "Emporians Celebrate at Newton". The Emporia Weekly Gazette. Emporia, Kansas. October 16, 1930. p. 1. Retrieved January 1, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.