College Park station (Caltrain)

College Park is a lightly used Caltrain station serving Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose, California. It is served by two weekday-only round trips, with no weekend service.

College Park
College Park station in September 2012
Location780 Stockton Avenue, San Jose, California
Coordinates37°20′34″N 121°54′56″W
Owned byPeninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board
Platforms2 island platforms
Tracks5
Other information
Fare zoneFare Zone 4
History
Original companySouthern Pacific
Traffic
Passengers (2018)108 per weekday[1]  31.7%
Services
Preceding station Caltrain Following station
Santa Clara
toward San Francisco
 Limited San Jose Diridon
toward Tamien or Gilroy
Local
Former services
Preceding station Southern Pacific Railroad Following station
Santa Clara
toward San Francisco
 Peninsula Commute San Jose
Terminus
Location

History

Before Caltrain, College Park was a station on Southern Pacific's Peninsula Commute line, in fare zone 6 (brown).[2] It is mentioned in Jack London's 1903 novel The Call of the Wild as the location at which the stolen canine protagonist is fenced, beginning his journey away from civilization.[3][4]

In August 2005, service was reduced from 12 daily trains to four.[5] The nearby students who use the station have a history of protesting to protect it from removal.[6]

Due to the small size of the station, only two cars of each train are capable of opening their doors to allow passengers to board and alight.

References
  1. "2018 Annual Count Key Findings Report" (PDF). Caltrain. 2018.
  2. "Southern Pacific Peninsula Time Tables". Southern Pacific Lines. April 1, 1978. Archived from the original on July 1, 2007.
  3. Dunn, Geoffrey (16 January 2013). "The Call of the Valley". Metro Silicon Valley. San Jose, California. p. 17. Retrieved 15 March 2014. When Buck was stolen from the 'Miller' ranch, London referenced 'the little flag railway station known as College Park,' a small train stop that, to this day, is located in the College Park neighborhood, just off the Alameda near Bellarmine Preparatory School.
  4. London, Jack (1903). "Chapter I. Into the Primitive" . The Call of the Wild. No one saw him and Buck go off through the orchard on what Buck imagined was merely a stroll. And with the exception of a solitary man, no one saw them arrive at the little flag station known as College Park.
  5. "2014 Caltrain Annual Passenger Counts, Attachment 1 – Caltrain Service History" (PDF). Caltrain. 2014. Retrieved March 15, 2015.
  6. "Caltrain Cutbacks Would Take Hundreds of Bellarmine High Students Off Track". Gilroy, CA Patch. 2011-03-21. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
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