Stanford station
Stanford | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Platforms at Stanford station in July 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | 100 Embarcadero Road Palo Alto, California | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 37°26′19″N 122°09′24″W / 37.43861°N 122.15667°W | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board (PCJPB) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | PCJPB Peninsula Subdivision[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Construction | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Partial, no wheelchair lift available | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Status | Football game days only | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fare zone | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| History | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Opened | c. 1920s | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Original company | Southern Pacific | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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. 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
[edit]- ^ SMA Rail Consulting (April 2016). "California Passenger Rail Network Schematics" (PDF). California Department of Transportation. p. 13.
- ^ Straus, Naomi, ed. (2004). Let's Go California (10th ed.). Macmillan. p. 184. ISBN 9780312335441.
- ^ "Stanford Station". Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board. 2017.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Stanford Football". www.caltrain.com. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
- ^ "How to Get Your "Big Game" Ticket". Stanford Illustrated Review. Vol. 24, no. 1. October 1922. p. 21 – via Google Books.
- ^ McGovern, Janet (2012), Images of Rail: Caltrain and the Peninsula Commute Service, Arcadia Publishing, pp. 106–107, ISBN 9780738576220
External links
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