Winchester (VTA)

Winchester Transit Center
VTA light rail station
Station with train waiting to depart, September 20, 2012
Location	2400 Winchester Boulevard Campbell, California
Coordinates	37°16′46″N 121°56′53″W / 37.279403°N 121.948113°W / 37.279403; -121.948113Coordinates: 37°16′46″N 121°56′53″W / 37.279403°N 121.948113°W / 37.279403; -121.948113
Owned by	VTA
Line(s)	Mountain View–Winchester
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	VTA Bus Routes 37, 48, 49, 60, 101
Construction
Parking	54 spaces
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	2005
Services
Preceding station   VTA Light Rail   Following station Downtown Campbell toward Mountain View Mountain View–Winchester Terminus
Location

Winchester Transit Center 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 Mountain View–Winchester light rail line.

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 St in San Jose in a southwesterly direction, terminating at this station.

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 one 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.

The construction of the Winchester station ended the 74 years that Campbell was without Lightrail 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.