Stanford station

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
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 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 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

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

Media related to Stanford station at Wikimedia Commons