The Layton Oregon Short Line Railroad Station is a historic

railroad depot A train station, railroad station, or railway station is a railway facility where trains stop to load or unload passengers, freight, or both. It generally consists of at least one platform, one track, and a station building providing such an ...

in Layton,

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, United States. The depot was opened in 1912 alongside the tracks of the

Oregon Short Line Railroad The Oregon Short Line Railroad was a railroad in Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Montana and Oregon in the United States. The line was organized as the Oregon Short Line Railway in 1881 as a subsidiary of the Union Pacific Railway. The Union Pacific int ...

, which at that time was a subsidiary of (and later merged into) the

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. The depot was used for both freight and passenger traffic until the 1960s.

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In 1972 the depot building was sold with the stipulation it be removed from the original site. The new owner moved the building approximately 1,200 feet to the southeast, flipping the original trackside of the building around to the east, but keeping the depot alongside the railroad tracks. The original site of the depot is just southeast of Layton's Veterans Park on Gentile Street. Following the move, the building housed a number of different businesses until 2010, when the

Utah Department of Transportation The Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) is an agency of the state government of Utah, United States; it is usually referred to by its initials UDOT (pronounced "you-dot"). UDOT is responsible for approximately 5,900 miles (9,495 kilomet ...

(UDOT) purchased the building as part of the construction of a neighboring intersection. UDOT initially planned to demolish the building, but at the request of Layton City, it was decided to rehabilitate it instead. The building was sold and then restored in the years 2016–2017. It currently houses a Mexican food restaurant called Cafe Sabor. The Layton Station of the Utah Transit Authority's ''

FrontRunner ''FrontRunner'' is a Commuter rail in North America, commuter railway operated by the Utah Transit Authority (UTA) that runs along the Wasatch Front in north-central Utah with service from Ogden Central station in central Weber County, Utah, ...

'' commuter rail system is located next to the historic building. ''FrontRunner'' uses the same rail corridor in the area as the Oregon Short Line Railroad did when the depot was constructed in 1912.

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NRHP Nomination Form

1930 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, showing the depot in its original location
Former railway stations in Utah National Register of Historic Places in Davis County, Utah Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Utah Railway stations in the United States opened in 1912 Former Union Pacific Railroad stations Oregon Short Line Railroad {{Utah-railstation-stub

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