Novato Downtown station

It opened as an infill station for the Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) service in December 2019.

The original Northwestern Pacific (NWP) depot was built out of redwood on the site in 1879;[4] that building was moved nearby and a new one constructed in 1903.

Increased automobile ownership and highway construction led to a decline of rail travel in Marin County, thus leading to disuse of the facility as a passenger terminal after November 10, 1958.

[3] Station plans were finalized in 2016 and the platform was built at a cost of $2.4 million[7] by the time trains began operation.

[3][13] However, the SMART Board voted in June 2019 to instate regular, full-time service to the station;[11] testing commenced on November 8, 2019.

The former station building in 2018