Station	Belton Bell County
Origin of Station Name	“For Peter H. Bell, a soldier in the Texas army and who was governor of the state from 1849-1853”
Agency Opened	March 1, 1881
1886 Personnel	Depot Staff E. A. Sterling Station Master $100/mo H. S. Bridge Cotton Clerk $75/month V. C. Montgomery Clerk $65/month S. Ware Operator $60/month A. D. Bean Watchman $40/month F. Schiller Warehouse $40/month A. D. Benn Porter $10/month Other Personnel T. O. Goodale Engineering Dept. Water Supply $30/month John Casperson Section Foreman $55/month 21 Laborers Section Crew $1.25/day
1890 Insured Structures	Depot $1600 Section House $510 (Section No. 25)
1921 Depot(s)	New downtown depot built 1898, a few blocks due north of courthouse. Brick front section for passengers, 33’ by 46’8” with corrugated iron freight depot joined, 22’ by 154’. Non-standard design of a type not seen at any other point on the system. Featured Richardsonian Romanesque arches. GC&SF name herald, carved in limestone once embedded above front entrance, preserved on demolition, is held in collection of Temple Railroad Museum. Only other Texas Santa Fe depot known from this period to have a corrugated iron freight depot attached was at Lampasas, built in 1904, now Chamber of Commerce. At Belton a Spanish Revival style passenger depot was later built near campus of Mary Hardin Baylor University, depot since demolished, blueprints extant.
1946 Traffic Report	Not featured in 1946 Report
“The Earth” Press Coverage
Employee Magazine Coverage
Junction Other Lines
Agency Closed	March 16, 1976, Railroad Commission authorization to discontinue agency, Docket 3247 RO.
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