Great Bend Station was an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway station in Great Bend, Kansas. The station was along Santa Fe's main line between Chicago and Los Angeles. It was on the "northern branch" of the main line as it split in Hutchinson, Kansas. It was also served by a line the ran to Garden City, Kansas, travelling through Ness City and Scott City. Both of these lines are now operated by the Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad. The depot was built in a Mission Revival, common for Santa Fe and Southern Pacific stations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[2] Although passenger service is long gone, the depot still stands vacant and boarded up.[3][4]
Great Bend | |||||||||||
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Former Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway passenger rail station | |||||||||||
![]() The station in 2002 | |||||||||||
General information | |||||||||||
Location | Kansas Avenue, near ![]() Great Bend, Kansas | ||||||||||
Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
Construction | |||||||||||
Structure type | at-grade | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | 1910 (depot) 1872 (tracks laid)[1] | ||||||||||
Former services | |||||||||||
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The restrained mission style was more popular, again particularly on the Southern Plains, where it was adopted by the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe Railroads as part of their corporate identities. The Santa Fe station at Great Bend, Kansas, is perhaps exemplary
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