Agnew station is a former
railway station in
Santa Clara County, California, in what is now the city of
Santa Clara. The station was built in 1877 and originally served the
narrow-gauge South Pacific Coast Railroad
The South Pacific Coast Railroad (SPC) was a narrow gauge steam railroad running between Santa Cruz, California and Alameda, with a ferry connection in Alameda to San Francisco. The railroad was created as the Santa Clara Valley Railroad, founde ...
. Landowner Abram Agnew donated to the railroad to build a station and laid out the settlement that would become known as
Agnew's Village. (The station was similarly referred to as Agnew's.)
The line and station came under the ownership of
Southern Pacific Railroad
The Southern Pacific (or Espee from the railroad initials- SP) was an American Class I railroad network that existed from 1865 to 1996 and operated largely in the Western United States. The system was operated by various companies under the ...
in 1887. The
station building
A station building, also known as a head house, is the main building of a passenger railway station. It is typically used principally to provide services to passengers. A station building is a component of a station, which can include tracks, p ...
was purchased by the California Central Model Railroad Club in 1963 after passenger and freight services ceased — the
rail line remains active. The building was made a City of Santa Clara Historic Landmark in 1988.
References
External links
California Central Model Railroad Club
Buildings and structures in Santa Clara, California
Former Southern Pacific Railroad stations in California
Railway stations in Santa Clara County, California
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1877
Repurposed railway stations in the United States
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