Santa Barbara station

Santa Barbara is a passenger rail station in Santa Barbara, California, served by two Amtrak lines, the Coast Starlight and the Pacific Surfliner. The Coast Starlight runs once daily in each direction between Los Angeles and Seattle, Washington. The Pacific Surfliner trains serving this station run ten times daily (five in each direction) between San Diego and the Santa Barbara suburb of Goleta, with two of those running in each direction to/from San Luis Obispo further to the north. The station is fully staffed with ticketing and checked-baggage services.

For the light rail station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, see Santa Barbara station (PAAC).
Santa Barbara, CA
Santa Barbara station in 2014
Location209 State Street
Santa Barbara, California 93101
United States
Coordinates34°24′49″N 119°41′33″W
Owned byRedevelopment Agency of the City of Santa Barbara
Line(s)Coast Line
Platforms1 side platform, 1 island platform
Tracks2
ConnectionsThruway Motorcoach, MTD Downtown Shuttle
Construction
Disabled accessYes
Other information
Station codeSBA
History
Opened1902
Rebuilt2000
Original companySouthern Pacific
Passengers
2018365,077[1]  6.78% (Amtrak)
Services
Preceding station Amtrak Following station
San Luis Obispo
toward Seattle
 Coast Starlight Oxnard
toward Los Angeles
Goleta
toward San Luis Obispo
 Pacific Surfliner Carpinteria
toward Los Angeles or San Diego
Former services
Preceding station Southern Pacific Railroad Following station
Samarkand
toward San Francisco
 Coast Line Summerland
toward Los Angeles
Southern Pacific Train Depot
Location209 State St., Santa Barbara, California
Area4 acres (1.6 ha)
Built1905
ArchitectWilson, Francis W.
Architectural styleMission/Spanish Revival
NRHP reference No.06000658[2]
Added to NRHPAugust 2, 2006
Location

History
Santa Barbara station in a 1910 postcard
The station in 2007 after renovation in 2000

The station was built in 1902 by the Southern Pacific Railroad in the Spanish Mission Revival Style. Design work was by Santa Barbara architect Francis W. Wilson.[3] It is located within walking distance of Santa Barbara Harbor, Stearns Wharf and State Street, Santa Barbara's main thoroughfare. The historic depot was renovated in 2000; the project included the restoration of the ticket office and upgrades to the plumbing, electrical and heating and cooling systems.[4]

For most of the first decade of the Amtrak era, the station was only served by the Coast Starlight, which ran southbound during the evening rush and northbound at lunchtime. In 1988, Amtrak and Caltrans extended the San Diegan, previously a Los Angeles-San Diego service, to Santa Barbara, providing an additional round trip between the Central Coast and Los Angeles. Eventually, service was extended to nearby Goleta and later all the way to San Luis Obispo, resulting in the route being rebranded as the Pacific Surfliner in 2000.

Due to the length of the platform, when Amtrak's Coast Starlight train is stopped, it blocks the two streets to the north and south of the depot.[5]

Of the 74 California stations served by Amtrak, Santa Barbara was the 15th-busiest in FY2012, boarding or detraining an average of approximately 834 passengers daily, and serving a total of 304,382 passengers in FY2012.[6]

The station was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 2, 2006.[2]

Platforms and tracks
Northbound ■ Coast Starlight toward Seattle (San Luis Obispo)
■ Pacific Surfliner toward San Luis Obispo (Goleta)
Southbound ■ Coast Starlight toward Los Angeles (Oxnard)
■ Pacific Surfliner toward San Diego-Union Station (Carpinteria)

References
  1. "Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2018, State of California" (PDF). Amtrak. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  2. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  3. Starr, Kevin (1991). Material Dreams: Southern California Through the 1920s. Oxford University Press. p. 260. ISBN 978-0-19-507260-0.
  4. Great American Stations. Accessed February 20, 2013.
  5. "Train Web: Santa Barbara".
  6. "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2012, State of California" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2012. Retrieved 2013-05-11.

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