Swanston station is a

side-platform A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platforms, o ...

ed Sacramento RT

light rail Light rail (or light rail transit, abbreviated to LRT) is a form of passenger urban rail transit that uses rolling stock derived from tram technology National Conference of the Transportation Research Board while also having some features from ...

station between Arden Way and El Camino Avenue, just west of the Capital City Freeway, in

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, United States. The station was opened on March 12, 1987, and is operated by the

Sacramento Regional Transit District The Sacramento Regional Transit District, commonly referred to as SacRT (or simply RT), is the agency responsible for public transportation in the Sacramento, California area. It was established on April 1, 1973, as a result of the acquisition ...

as part of the Blue Line. The station is named for the C. Swanston & Son Meat Packing Plant, formerly located in the vicinity of the current station. The current light rail transit route between the Arden / Del Paso and Swanston stations was built on the abandoned right of way of the freight-only branch line of the

Sacramento Northern Railway The Sacramento Northern Railway (reporting mark SN) was a electric interurban railway that connected Chico, California, Chico in northern California with Oakland, California, Oakland via the state capital, Sacramento, California, Sacramento. In ...

electric

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that served the slaughterhouse.

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* Sacramento Regional Transit light rail stations Railway stations in the United States opened in 1987 1987 establishments in California {{SacramentoCA-stub