Stanford station
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Stanford | |||||||||||
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General information | |||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Line(s) | Peninsula Subdivision[1] | ||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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Status | Event service only | ||||||||||
Fare zone | Fare Zone 3 | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | c. 1920s | ||||||||||
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Stanford is a Caltrain station in Palo Alto, California, near the stadium on the Stanford University campus.[2] It is not a stop for regular service; instead, it is only served for Stanford football home games and other large events at the stadium.[3][4] The station does not have ticket vending machines nor Clipper card readers.
Service to the station has existed since at least 1922 (one year after Stanford Stadium opened).[5] In 1994, an estimated 20% of the visitors to the 1994 FIFA World Cup games at Stanford arrived by train.[6]
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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
Media related to Stanford station at Wikimedia Commons