Hall/Nimbus station
Train station in Beaverton, Oregon
Hall/Nimbus station is a train station in Beaverton, Oregon, United States, served by TriMet as part of WES Commuter Rail. It is the second station southbound on the commuter rail line, which operates between Beaverton and Wilsonville in the Portland metropolitan area's Washington County. Opened in February 2009, the TriMet-owned station is located west of Oregon Route 217 (OR 217) near the Washington Square shopping mall on Hall Boulevard. It includes a 50-car park and ride and connections to TriMet bus routes 76–Hall/Greenburg and 78–Denney/Kerr Pkwy. WES connects with the Blue and Red lines of MAX Light Rail at Beaverton Transit Center.
History
Planning for a commuter rail line between Beaverton and Wilsonville began as early as 1996. A design proposal in 2002 envisioned a station serving the Washington Square shopping mall on Scholls Ferry Road west of OR 217 called "Scholls Ferry/Washington Square", later renamed to just "Washington Square". An environmental analysis resulted in the project steering committee's decision to move the station farther north to just south of Hall Boulevard to leverage opportunities with nearby developments and anticipated transit improvements.
The Federal Transit Administration approved the commuter rail line in 2004, and work began in October 2006. By 2008, TriMet had again renamed the station to "Hall/Nimbus," and construction of its platform had begun; it was the last station to be built.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as train station in Beaverton, Oregon. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5642552. Authority coordinates are 45.458, -122.787. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2009, 1996, 2002 and 2004.
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This entry incorporates text from “Hall/Nimbus station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.