Bay St. Louis station is a closed

Amtrak The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak () , is the national passenger railroad company of the United States. It operates inter-city rail service in 46 of the 48 contiguous U.S. States and nine cities in Canada ...

intercity train station in

Bay St. Louis Bay St. Louis is a city in and the county seat of Hancock County, Mississippi, in the United States. Located on the Gulf Coast on the west side of the Bay of St. Louis, it is part of the Gulfport–Biloxi Metropolitan Statistical Area. As o ...

Mississippi Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mexico; to the southwest by Louisiana; and to the northwest by Arkansas. Miss ...

, which served the '' Sunset Limited''. The Bay St. Louis station consists of two small platforms with indoor/outdoor shelters near the former

Louisville & Nashville Railroad The Louisville and Nashville Railroad , commonly called the L&N, was a Class I railroad that operated freight and passenger services in the southeast United States. Chartered by the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1850, the road grew into one of the ...

Depot, which was built in 1929, but is closed to the public. Former Louisville & Nashville services which utilized their station included the '' Pan-American'', ''

Gulf Wind The ''Gulf Wind'' was a streamlined passenger train inaugurated on July 31, 1949, as a joint operation by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and the Seaboard Air Line Railroad (Seaboard Coast Line after merger with the Atlantic Coast Line ...

'', and ''

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''. Into the latter 1960s the Southern Railway's ''

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'' and ''

Piedmont Limited The ''Piedmont Limited'' was a named passenger train operated by the Southern Railway in the southern United States. For most of its life it was a New York—New Orleans train, operating over the same route as the more famous '' Crescent Li ...

'' also used this station. Amtrak service began with the '' Gulf Coast Limited'', which operated between 1984 and 1985 and called at the station. The stop was reactivated on March 31, 1993, in service on the ''Sunset Limited''. Damage to the rail line resulting from Hurricane Katrina in 2005 caused Amtrak to suspend service east of

New Orleans New Orleans ( , ,New Orleans

, including at Bay St. Louis. In anticipation of restored service, Amtrak began construction of a new Americans With Disabilities Act-compliant platform in 2022.

Notable places nearby

John C. Stennis Space Center The John C. Stennis Space Center (SSC) is a NASA rocket testing facility in Hancock County, Mississippi, United States, on the banks of the Pearl River at the Mississippi–Louisiana border. , it is NASA's largest rocket engine test facility. ...

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Amtrak Stations DatabaseImage of former L&N Station
Former Amtrak stations in Mississippi Buildings and structures in Hancock County, Mississippi Former Louisville and Nashville Railroad stations Mississippi Landmarks 1929 establishments in Mississippi Railway stations in the United States opened in 1929 Railway stations in the United States opened in 1984 Railway stations in the United States opened in 1993 Railway stations closed in 2005 Railway stations scheduled to open in 2024 Railway stations in the United States closed in 1971 Railway stations in the United States closed in the 2000s Railway stations in the United States closed in 1985 {{Mississippi-railstation-stub