Bingen–White Salmon station

{{Short description|Passenger rail station in Washington, United States}}

{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2023}}

{{Infobox station

| style = Amtrak

| name = Bingen–White Salmon, WA

| image = Bingen White Salmon Amtrak station.jpeg

| image_caption =

| address = 313 West Depot Street
Bingen, Washington

| country = United States

| coordinates = {{coord|45.7151|-121.4688|type:railwaystation_region:US-WA|display=inline,title}}

| line = BNSF Fallbridge Subdivision

| connections = {{rint|bus}} Mount Adams Transportation Service{{cite web | url=https://www.klickitatcounty.org/1165/Fixed | title=Fixed Route Service | date=July 1, 2021 | accessdate=April 4, 2022 | publisher=Klickikat County}}

| platform = 1 side platform

| tracks = 2

| parking = Yes

| bicycle =

| mpassengers = {{rail pass box|system=Amtrak|passengers={{Amtrak ridership|Bingen-White Salmon}}{{Amtrak ridership|citationWA}}|pass_year={{Amtrak ridership|date}}}}

| opened = December 15, 1907 (Portland and Seattle Railway)
October 25, 1981{{cite web |title=Amtrak Timetable Changes - Effective October 1, 1981 |url=http://timetables.org/full.php?group=19811001sc&item=0006 |website=timetables.org |publisher=Amtrak |accessdate=November 22, 2018 |page=6 |date=October 1, 1981}}

| rebuilt = 1992

| accessible = Yes

| code = {{Amtrak code|BNG}}

| owned = BNSF Railway

| zone =

| services = {{Adjacent stations|system=Amtrak|line=Empire Builder|left=Vancouver, Washington|right=Wishram|to-left=Portland}}

| other_services_header = Former services

| other_services_collapsible = yes

| other_services = {{adjacent stations|system=Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway|line=Main Line|left=Underwood|right=Lyle}}

| mapframe = yes

| mapframe-marker = rail

| mapframe-marker-color = #{{rcr|Amtrak}}

| mapframe-zoom = 14

}}

Bingen–White Salmon is a train station in Bingen, Washington served by Amtrak. The unstaffed station is part of a larger BNSF dispatch center located one block south of Stuben Street (SR 14) in Bingen. The building is orangish-yellow in color.

Rail service through Bingen and nearby White Salmon began on December 15, 1907, when regular service began on the Portland and Seattle Railway.{{cite news |title=Portland & Seattle Railway Starts Regular Trains Today |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/42597792/ps_railroad_december_15_1907/ |accessdate=January 19, 2020 |work=The Spokesman-Review |date=December 15, 1907 |page=45 |via=Newspapers.com}} {{free access}} The station was named after both Bingen and nearby White Salmon by a court order in 1910,{{cite book |date=December 1910 |title=Fifth Annual Report of the Railroad Commission of Washington |page=131 |publisher=E. L. Boardman |location=Olympia, Washington |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qjw3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA131 |via=Google Books |accessdate=February 24, 2018}} and formally introduced in 1930 by the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway.{{cite web |title=Bingen-White Salmon, WA (BNG) |url=http://www.greatamericanstations.com/stations/bingen-white-salmon-wa-bng/ |work=Great American Stations |publisher=Amtrak |accessdate=February 24, 2018}} The current station was built in 1992.

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