Stanford station

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Stanford
Platforms at Stanford station, July 2018.JPG
Platforms at Stanford station in July 2018
General information
Location100 Embarcadero Road
Palo Alto, California
Coordinates 37°26′19″N122°09′24″W / 37.43861°N 122.15667°W / 37.43861; -122.15667
Owned by Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board (PCJPB)
Line(s)PCJPB Peninsula Subdivision [1]
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
Construction
AccessiblePartial, no wheelchair lift available
Other information
StatusFootball game days only
Fare zone3
History
Openedc. 1920s
Original company Southern Pacific
Services
Preceding station Caltrain roundel.svg Caltrain Following station
Palo Alto
toward San Francisco
Weekend Local
(select trains on football game days only)
 California Avenue
toward San Jose Diridon or Tamien
      Local does not stop here
      Limited does not stop here
      Express does not stop here
Former services
Preceding station Caltrain roundel.svg Caltrain Following station
Palo Alto
toward San Francisco
Weekend Local (L2)
Game days only
 California Avenue
toward San Jose Diridon or Tamien
Location
Stanford station

Stanford station is a Caltrain station in Palo Alto, California, near the stadium on the Stanford University campus. [2] It is not a regular service stop; instead, it is only in service for Stanford football home games and other large events at the stadium. [3] [4] The usual stop for the university is the Palo Alto station, located 0.57 miles (0.92 km) north of this station. [1] The station does not have any ticket vending machines; however, when in use, Caltrain staff will be present with handheld Clipper card readers so people can tag on and off the train. [5]

Service to the station has existed since at least 1922 (one year after the Stanford Stadium opened). [6] In 1994, an estimated 20% of the visitors to the 1994 FIFA World Cup soccer games at Stanford arrived by train. [7]

References

  1. 1 2 SMA Rail Consulting (April 2016). "California Passenger Rail Network Schematics" (PDF). California Department of Transportation. p. 13.
  2. ↑ Straus, Naomi, ed. (2004). Let's Go California (10th ed.). Macmillan. p. 184. ISBN   978-0-312-33544-1.
  3. ↑ "Stanford Station". Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board. 2017.
  4. ↑ "Caltrain Offering Service for Earthquakes Game at Stanford Stadium on Saturday Night" (Press release). Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board. June 24, 2015. Archived from the original on February 13, 2018.
  5. ↑ "Stanford Football". Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board. Retrieved September 23, 2021.
  6. ↑ "How to Get Your "Big Game" Ticket". Stanford Illustrated Review. Vol. 24, no. 1. October 1922. p. 21 – via Google Books.
  7. ↑ McGovern, Janet (2012), Images of Rail: Caltrain and the Peninsula Commute Service, Arcadia Publishing, pp. 106–107, ISBN   978-0-7385-7622-0

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