Stanford station

Train station in Palo Alto, California, U.S.

Preceding station		Following station
Palo Alto toward San Francisco	Weekend Local (L2) Game days only	California Avenue toward San Jose Diridon or Tamien
Local (L1) does not stop here
Limited (L3) does not stop here
Limited (L4) does not stop here
Limited (L5) does not stop here
Baby Bullet (B7) does not stop here

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 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 ticket vending machines; however, when in use, Caltrain staff will be present with handheld Clipper card readers so people can tag on and off.^[5]

Service to the station has existed since at least 1922 (one year after Stanford Stadium opened).^[6] In 1994, an estimated 20% of the visitors to the 1994 FIFA World Cup games at Stanford arrived by train.^[7]

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.
^ "Stanford Football". www.caltrain.com. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
^ "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