Oxford: Railroad Station (Location Key)

In Sanctuary Faulkner locates the railroad station in Oxford right where it really was during Faulkner's lifetime, and essentially right where he locates the imaginary Jefferson railroad station that appears in so many of the Yoknapatawpha fictions. In this fiction, a very drunk Gowan Stevens spends the night in the Oxford train station, apparently in the bathroom. Horace Benbow gets off and on board trains there, but also uses the bathroom. While in there, both men see Temple Drake's name "scrawled on the foul, stained wall" (34, 172).