Santa Rosa–Railroad Square (SMART station)

Santa Rosa–Railroad Square
SMART train station
Santa Rosa Depot in 2010
Location	7 4th Street Santa Rosa, California United States
Line(s)	NWP
Tracks	2
Construction
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	4
History
Opened	1903 July 1, 2017 (2017-07-01) (SMART preview)
Closed	ca. 1958 (NWP)
Previous names	Santa Rosa
Services
Preceding station   Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit   Following station Santa Rosa–Guerneville Road toward Sonoma County Airport SMART Rohnert Park toward San Rafael Transit Center   Former services   Preceding station   Northwestern Pacific Railroad   Following station Healdsburg toward Eureka   Redwood   Cotati toward San Rafael Fulton toward Eureka   San Francisco to Eureka   Bellvue toward Sausalito Ferry Terminal Terminus   Sebastopol Branch   Kenilworth toward Sebastopol Preceding station   Petaluma and Santa Rosa Railroad   Following station Macdonald Terminus   Interurban   Stop 45 toward Petaluma
Railroad Square District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
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Coordinates	38°26′16″N 122°43′18″W / 38.4377°N 122.7218°W / 38.4377; -122.7218Coordinates: 38°26′16″N 122°43′18″W / 38.4377°N 122.7218°W / 38.4377; -122.7218
Built by	Northwestern Pacific Railroad
NRHP Reference #	79000561
Added to NRHP	April 20, 1979

Santa Rosa–Railroad Square is a Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit train station in Santa Rosa. It opened to SMART preview service on July 1, 2017; full commuter service will commence at a later date. It is located west of Wilson Street between 4th and 5th Streets, across the U.S. Route 101 freeway from downtown at the site of the Santa Rosa Northwestern Pacific Railroad Depot.

The original Northwestern Pacific Railroad (NWP) Depot was built in 1903. Surviving the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the station was eventually served by ten trains a day. Increased automobile ownership and highway construction led to decline of rail use in Sonoma County, thus leading to disuse of the facility as a passenger terminal around 1958.

Alfred Hitchcock's 1943 film, Shadow of a Doubt, featured scenes filmed at the original NWP depot.

2003 film, Cheaper by the Dozen, features a scene of the station when Tom Baker, played by Steve Martin, reunites with his family after finding his runaway son.

The station is the focal point of the Railroad Square Historic District, a National Register of Historic Places historic district designated in 1979.