Revealed: The loneliest train stations in the USA - with the least-used located in Texas, where just 247 passengers a YEAR board a service

You'd beryllium hard-pushed to find anyplace much successful nan mediate of obscurity successful America than Sanderson.

Yet it's firmly connected nan representation acknowledgment to 2 striking claims to fame - it's nan cactus superior of Texas and location to America's least-used train station.

It lies connected Amtrak's Sunset Limited and Texas Eagle routes betwixt Los Angeles and New Orleans/Chicago - and erstwhile we delved into Amtrak's ridership information to pinpoint America's 10 loneliest stations, we discovered that conscionable 247 group utilized Sanderson's recently renovated position successful 2023.

It gets 9 arrivals per week, pinch passengers capable to drawback six trains to Los Angeles and 3 to New Orleans aliases Chicago, nan second lying 1,350 miles away. The eastbound train splits successful San Antonio, pinch nan New Orleans work called nan Sunset Limited and nan Chicago train designated arsenic nan Texas Eagle.

This work operates America's longest train route, taking 65 hours to screen nan 2,728 miles betwixt LA and nan Windy City.

The second-loneliest position is Montgomery, West Virginia, wherever conscionable 266 group boarded aliases alighted a train successful 2023.

Montgomery sits connected nan Cardinal way betwixt New York City and Chicago, pinch departures astatine 9.02am and 7.50pm daily. The full Cardinal way takes 27 hours and 28 minutes to complete.

On nan aforesaid statement is Alderson, West Virginia, conscionable 4 stops eastbound from Montgomery and nan 3rd loneliest position pinch 399 riders.

Thurmond, West Virginia, 1 extremity eastbound from Montgomery, comes 4th pinch 466 passengers.

The 5th least-used position connected nan web is Rensselaer, which is besides reached via nan Cardinal work but lies further westbound successful Indiana, and conscionable 2 stops from Chicago. It welcomed 509 passengers successful 2023.

The sixth least-used stop, Connersville, besides successful Indiana, is utilized by 528 passengers and is located 4 stops eastbound from Rensselaer.

The seventh loneliest train position connected Amtrak's web is Lordsburg (688 riders) successful New Mexico, which sits connected nan Sunset Limited route.

In eighth position is South Shore-South Portsmouth, Kentucky, connected nan Cardinal line, pinch 870 riders, followed by Schriever, Louisiana, successful ninth spot pinch 912. Schriever is 1 extremity from New Orleans connected nan Sunset Limited route.

The 10th loneliest position is Browning, Montana, connected nan Empire Builder way from Seattle to Chicago, pinch 935 riders. The Empire Builder's afloat way takes betwixt 45 and 47 hours.

Our investigation besides reveals that Washington DC has conscionable 1 Amtrak train position - Washington Union Station, which saw 4.75million passengers successful 2023. The extremity is nan second-most utilized connected Amtrak's full network.

Similarly, nan authorities of Idaho has conscionable 1 Amtrak stop, Sandpoint, which saw 4,751 passengers successful 2023 connected nan Empire Builder line. The metropolis is known for its ample reservoir and, successful nan winter, skis slopes.

Busy California's least-used Amtrak position is Pomona, successful Los Angeles, pinch 1,315 riders alighting from aliases boarding nan Sunset Limited service, while tourism hotspot Florida's loneliest position is Okeechobee (4,026 riders), which sits connected nan Silver Star way from Miami to New York City.

Amtrak does not person stations successful Alaska, Hawaii, Wyoming aliases South Dakota.