Winchester Transit Center
{{Short description|VTA light rail station in Campbell, California}}
{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}
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{{Infobox station
| name = Winchester
| style = SCVTA
| symbol_location = santaclara
| symbol = Green
| image = Winchester VTA 1242 07.JPG
| image_caption = Station with train waiting to depart in September 2012
| other_name = Winchester Transit Center
| address = 2400 Winchester Boulevard
| borough = Campbell, California
| coordinates = {{coord|37.279403|-121.948113|type:railwaystation_region:US-CA|display=inline,title|format=dms}}
| owned = Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
| line =
| platforms = 1 island platform
| tracks = 2
| connections = {{bus icon}} VTA Bus: {{VTA bus route|27}}, {{VTA bus route|37}}, {{VTA bus route|60}}, Express {{VTA bus route|101}}{{Cite web |date= June 13, 2022 |title=VTA Light Rail System |url= https://www.vta.org/sites/default/files/2022-06/LR-busconnect-061322-30x33.pdf |access-date=October 11, 2022 |website=Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority}}
| parking = 54 spaces
| bicycle =
| accessible = Yes
| opened = {{Start date|2005|10|01}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.vta.org/news/factsheets/bus_lightrail_trolly_information/09_light_rail_system_110705.pdf |title=VTA Facts: Light Rail System |date=November 30, 2006 |publisher=Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority |format=PDF |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090320011638/http://www.vta.org/news/factsheets/bus_lightrail_trolly_information/09_light_rail_system_110705.pdf |archive-date=March 20, 2009 |access-date=January 10, 2020}}
| services = {{Adjacent stations
|system1=SCVTA
|line1=Green|left1=Downtown Campbell
}}
| mapframe = yes
| mapframe-zoom = 14
}}
Winchester Transit Center (also known as Winchester station) is a light rail station and park-and-ride lot operated by Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) in Campbell, California. Winchester is the southern terminus of the Green Line of the VTA light rail system.
History
Winchester station was built as part of the Vasona Light Rail extension project. This project extended VTA light rail service from the intersection of Woz Way and West San Carlos Street in San Jose in a southwesterly direction, terminating at this station.{{Cite web |url=http://www.vta.org/projects/vasona/ |title=Vasona Project Description |date=2008-09-15 |website=Completed projects |publisher=Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority |access-date=2008-11-16}}
The station began service on October 1, 2005, after a delay of some months after a dispute with the Federal Railroad Administration.
The construction of this station and the rest of the Vasona Light Rail extension was part of the 1996 Measure B Transportation Improvement Program. Santa Clara County voters approved the Measure B project in 1996 along with a half-percent sales tax increase. The Vasona Light Rail extension was funded mostly by the resulting sales tax revenues with additional money coming from federal and state funding, grants, VTA bond revenues, and municipal contributions.{{Cite web |url=http://www.vta.org/news/releases/2005/10_oct/nr10-01_2005.html |title=Making the Light Rail Connection: Expanded Service Adds 5.3 miles to System |date=2005-10-01 |publisher=Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority |access-date=2008-11-16}}
The construction of the Winchester station ended the 74 years that Campbell was without light rail service. "The San Jose Railroads and the Peninsular Railway Company of San Jose" petitioned to stop street car trolley service after the death of Henry C. Blackwood in 1931 and the costs that the railroad would endure with the new state highway being built.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1977&dat=19311212&id=OhciAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EKQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2289,5017196 Railroads may Quit 2 lines - Permit to abandon service to Los Gatos, Alum Rock Park Sought, San Jose News, Dec 12, 1931]
Nearby points of interest
Connecting transit
- VTA Bus: 27, 37, 60, Express 101
References
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External links
- {{commons category-inline|Winchester Transit Center}}
- [https://www.vta.org/go/stations/winchester Winchester Station] at VTA
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Category:Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority light rail stations
Category:Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority bus stations
Category:Railway stations in the United States opened in 2005
Category:2005 establishments in California
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