11 Facts About Stanwood station

The station is in downtown Stanwood, near the intersection of State Route 532 and the Pioneer Highway, and is served by Community Transit and Island Transit buses.

The $5 million project to build the Stanwood station was approved in 2006 and began construction in March 2009 alongside a siding expansion.

Stanwood station was previously served by intercity passenger trains on the Great Northern Railway until 1971.

Stanwood station has a single side platform, which runs northwest–southeast and measures 600 feet long.

The unstaffed Stanwood station lacks a ticket vending machine and baggage services, requiring passengers to buy their ticket online, on the phone, or at another Stanwood station.

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The station is located a block north of 271st Street Northwest, the main street through downtown Stanwood, and is adjacent to a public parking lot with 20 stalls reserved for Amtrak customers.

Stanwood station was settled in the 1870s and received its first train depot on the Seattle and Montana Railroad in October 1891.

The city of East Stanwood station was later established around the depot in 1906 and remained separate from Stanwood station until the two communities were merged into one city in 1960.

The $3 million expansion of a siding through Stanwood station was named as a high priority and was sent to the state legislature for funding.

Downtown boosters in Stanwood began pushing for a new train station in the early 2000s, hoping to piggyback off the siding expansion project, and appealed to state senator Mary Margaret Haugen for support.

Construction on the Stanwood station was scheduled to begin in 2007, but was delayed by a year due to design changes requested by BNSF and a disagreement between state and federal officials over the height of the platform.