City of Palo Alto shuttles: Crosstown, Embarcadero
Dumbarton Express: DB
East Palo Alto shuttle
Menlo Park midday shuttle
Samtrans: ECR, 280, 281, 296, 397
VTA: 21, 22, Rapid 522
Stanford Health Care TECH shuttle
Stanford Marguerite: MC, N, O, P, RP, S, SE, X, Y
Construction
Parking
389 spaces; paid
Bicycle facilities
178 racks and 94 lockers
Accessible
Yes
Other information
Fare zone
3
History
Opened
1890
Rebuilt
1893, 1896, 1941
Original company
Southern Pacific
Passengers
2018
7,764 per weekday[2] 1.6%
Services
Preceding station
Caltrain
Following station
Menlo Park
toward San Francisco
Local (L1)
California Avenue
toward San Jose Diridon or Tamien
Weekend Local (L2)
California Avenue
(select trains stop at Stanford on game days)
toward San Jose Diridon or Tamien
Limited (L3)
California Avenue
toward San Jose Diridon, Tamien or Gilroy
Redwood City
toward San Francisco
Limited (L4)
Mountain View
toward San Jose Diridon, Tamien or Gilroy
Menlo Park
toward San Francisco
Limited (L5)
Mountain View
toward San Jose Diridon or Tamien
Redwood City
toward San Francisco
Baby Bullet (B7)
Mountain View
toward San Jose Diridon
Former services
Preceding station
Southern Pacific Railroad
Following station
Menlo Park
toward San Francisco
Coast Line
California Avenue
toward Los Angeles
Peninsula Commute
Stanford
toward San Jose
Palo Alto Southern Pacific Railroad Depot
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Built
1940-41
Architect
John H. Christie[3]
Architectural style
Streamline Moderne
NRHP reference No.
96000425[3]
Added to NRHP
April 18, 1996
Location
Palo Alto station (also called Palo Alto Transit Center) is an intermodal transit center in Palo Alto, California. It is served by Caltrain regional rail service, SamTrans and Santa Clara VTA local bus service, Dumbarton Express regional bus service, the Stanford University Marguerite Shuttle, and several local shuttle services. Palo Alto is the second-busiest Caltrain station after San Francisco, averaging 7,764 weekday boardings by a 2018 count. The Caltrain station has two side platforms serving the two tracks of the Peninsula Subdivision and a nearby bus transfer plaza.
The San Francisco and San Jose Railroad was built through then-empty land north of Mayfield in 1863. The first Palo Alto station was opened in 1890 to serve the then-newly established Stanford University. It was replaced by a larger depot in 1896. The Southern Pacific Railroad opened a new station in 1941 as part of a grade separation project. Designed by John H. Christie, it was constructed in the Streamline Moderne style to match the railroad's Daylight series of streamlined passenger trains. Intercity service to Palo Alto ended in 1971; the Peninsula Commute service continued and was renamed Caltrain in 1985. The station building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Palo Alto Southern Pacific Railroad Depot in 1996.
^SMA Rail Consulting (April 2016). "California Passenger Rail Network Schematics" (PDF). California Department of Transportation. p. 13.
^"2018 Annual Count Key Findings Report" (PDF). Caltrain. 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-05-20. Retrieved 2018-10-17.
^ ab"National Register Information System – Palo Alto Southern Pacific Railroad Depot (#96000425)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
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