Stanford station

Train station in Palo Alto, California, U.S.

Stanford

Platforms at Stanford station in July 2018

General information
Location| 100 Embarcadero Road
Palo Alto, California
Coordinates| 37°26′19″N 122°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]
Platforms| 2 side platforms
Tracks| 2
Construction
Accessible| Partial, no wheelchair lift available
Other information
Status| Football game days only
Fare zone| 3
History
Opened| c. 1920s
Original company| Southern Pacific
Services
| Preceding station  |  Caltrain | Following station

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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 | Following station

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|

Palo Alto

toward San Francisco

|  | Weekend Local (L2)

Game days only

|  | California Avenue

toward San Jose Diridon or Tamien

Location

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

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1. ^ 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 9780312335441.
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". www.caltrain.com. Retrieved 23 September 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 9780738576220

## External links

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Caltrain

Stations|

* 22nd Street
* Bayshore
* Belmont
* (Blossom Hill)
* (Broadway)
* Burlingame
* California Avenue
* (Capitol)
* (College Park)
* (Gilroy)
* Hayward Park
* Hillsdale
* Lawrence
* Menlo Park
* Millbrae
* (Morgan Hill)
* Mountain View
* Palo Alto
* Redwood City
* San Antonio
* San Bruno
* San Carlos
* San Francisco 4th and King Street
* San Jose Diridon
* (San Martin)
* San Mateo
* Santa Clara
* South San Francisco
* (Stanford)
* Sunnyvale
* Tamien

Planned
Castroville
Pajaro/Watsonville
Salinas
Salesforce

Former
Atherton
Bay Meadows
Butler Road
Castro
Paul Avenue

Management|

* Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board
* City and County of San Francisco
* SamTrans
* Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
* Amtrak
* TransitAmerica Services

History|

* Bayshore Cutoff
* San Francisco and San Jose Railroad
* Southern Pacific Transportation Company
* Peninsula Commute
* California High-Speed Rail

Projects|

Completed
Caltrain Centralized Equipment Maintenance and Operations Facility
Caltrain Express
Caltrain Modernization Program

In Progress
Monterey County Rail Extension

Planned
The Portal
Dumbarton Rail Corridor

Miscellaneous|

* Clipper card
* California High-Speed Rail
* Category for related articles
* Coast Line

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