Cloverdale Depot is a

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and future intermodal station in

Cloverdale, California Cloverdale is a city in Sonoma County, California, United States; it is both the westernmost and the northernmost city in the San Francisco Bay Area. The San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad reached the area in 1872. The Cloverdale Ranche ...

. It is served by Amtrak Thruway 7 and

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buses. Additional service to

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is provided by Sonoma County Transit under contract by

Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) is a commuter rail service and bicycle-pedestrian pathway project in Sonoma and Marin counties of the U.S. state of California. When completed, the entire system will serve a corridor between Clover ...

History

A rail station previously served Cloverdale along the original

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, and was listed on the

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in 1976 as Cloverdale Railroad Station. Train service began in 1872; the station was in plan, of a "never numerous" but important rural railroad station type. With Passenger service ended in 1958. As part of the project to reroute

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on a bypass around Cloverdale, the disused station building had been planned to be relocated and used as a railway museum. That station, however, was destroyed in a fire on September 21, 1991. With the anticipation of future rail service, the city sought to construct a new facility to serve its public transit needs. The bus bays and

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lot were completed in 1997. The new station building was constructed the following year, being dedicated on May15, 1999. Construction costs amounted to $1.9million (equivalent to $ in adjusted for inflation), accumulated from local, state, and federal sources. The new facility served as a bus station, and the Northwestern Pacific Railroad would go on to move their corporate offices into the new building, but the initiation of new rail service stalled. The depot must legally serve as the northern terminus of the

main line. It is expected open to passenger trains after further phases of construction. The 2018 California State Rail Plan called for the station to see SMART service by 2027.

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