Stanford station

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.

Stanford
Platforms at Stanford station in July 2018
Location100 Embarcadero Road
Palo Alto, California
Coordinates37°26′19″N 122°09′24″W
Owned byPeninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board
Line(s)Peninsula Subdivision[1]
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
Other information
StatusEvent service only
Fare zoneFare Zone 3
History
Openedc. 1920s
Original companySouthern Pacific
Services
Preceding station Caltrain Following station
Palo Alto
toward San Francisco
 Local
(game days only)
 California Avenue
toward Tamien or Gilroy
Location

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
  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. "How to Get Your "Big Game" Ticket". Stanford Illustrated Review. Vol. 24 no. 1. October 1922. p. 21 – via Google Books.
  6. McGovern, Janet (2012), Images of Rail: Caltrain and the Peninsula Commute Service, Arcadia Publishing, pp. 106–107, ISBN 9780738576220

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