Kingman station is an

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train station located in the historic Kingman Railroad Depot in

Kingman, Arizona Kingman is a city in, and the county seat of, Mohave County, Arizona, United States. It is named after Lewis Kingman, an engineer for the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad. It is located southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada, and northwest of Arizona' ...

, United States. Amtrak's ''

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'' trains stop at the Kingman station once daily in each direction. Kingman is also the transfer point for dedicated, guaranteed

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service to/from Laughlin, Nevada and Las Vegas, Nevada. This station has an enclosed waiting room, but is unmanned. There are no ticket agents or Quik-Trak kiosks on site. Of the eight Arizona stations served by Amtrak (in 2020), Kingman was the third-busiest in fiscal year 2020, boarding or detraining 5,536 passengers in 2020.

History

The

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway , often referred to as the Santa Fe or AT&SF, was one of the larger railroads in the United States. The railroad was chartered in February 1859 to serve the cities of Atchison and Topeka, Kansas, and S ...

(ATSF) built the depot in 1907. The station's elevation is above

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. The station has been a contributing property to the

Kingman Commercial Historic District The Kingman Commercial Historic District is a historic district along the 300 and 400 blocks of Andy Devine Ave. in Kingman, Arizona. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. It includes seven contributing properties; ...

, which has been on the

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since 1986. and Like many depots constructed by the ATSF, the building exhibits characteristics of the Spanish Colonial Revival style of architecture, particularly in the roofline's curvilinear gables. In early 2011, the city of Kingman finished a multi-year restoration of the depot. The work was funded in part through a $471,500 federal Transportation Enhancements grant and approximately $150,000 in federal Community Development Block Grants. Following the rehabilitation, the depot houses a passenger waiting room and a railroad museum. The depot is the third station in Kingman, and is built of poured concrete. The first station was destroyed by fire, as was the 1901-built "fire proof" one, which burned to the ground in 1906. It is served by

's route from Chicago, Illinois, to Los Angeles, California, with one eastbound and one westbound stop daily.

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External links

Kingman Amtrak Station (USA RailGuide – TrainWeb)

Kingman, Arizona Tourism
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