Berryessa/North San José–Richmond line

Berryessa/North San José–Richmond line
Warm Springs-bound train in San Leandro in 2018
Overview
Locale	South Bay, East Bay
Termini	Berryessa/​North San José Richmond
Stations	21
Service
Type	Rapid transit
System	Bay Area Rapid Transit
History
Opened	September 11, 1972 (1972-09-11)
Last extension	June 13, 2020 (2020-06-13)
Technical
Line length	51 miles (82 km)
Track gauge	5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) Indian gauge
Electrification	1 kV DC Third rail
Operating speed	70 mph (110 km/h)[1]
Route map Legend Amtrak to Bakersfield/Seattle/Chicago Richmond Maintenance Yard Richmond Richmond Greenway I-80 El Cerrito del Norte El Cerrito Plaza Contra Costa County Alameda County North Berkeley Ohlone Greenway Downtown Berkeley SR 13 Ashby SR 24 ■ to Antioch MacArthur southbound transfer I-580 I-980 / SR 24 19th Street Oakland northbound transfer 12th Street Oakland City Center ■ ■ to SFO/Millbrae ■ ■ to Daly City Lake Merritt Fruitvale Coliseum ■ to OAK SR 112 / SR 61 San Leandro Bay Fair transfer ■ to Dublin/​Pleasanton I-238 Hayward SR 92 South Hayward Amtrak Hayward Complex Union City Alameda Creek   ACE to Stockton SR 84 Fremont Lake Elizabeth tunnel Irvington 2026 Warm Springs SR 262 Alameda County Santa Clara County Calaveras proposed SR 237 Milpitas Berryessa/​North San José   planned Silicon Valley extension US 101 28th Street/Little Portugal Downtown San Jose SR 87 Diridon I-880 Santa Clara Maintenance Facility Santa Clara This diagram: view talk

The Berryessa/North San José–Richmond line (formerly the Richmond–Warm Springs/South Fremont and Richmond–Fremont line) is a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) line in the San Francisco Bay Area that runs from Berryessa/North San José station to Richmond station. The line is colored orange on maps, and BART sometimes calls it the Orange Line.^[2] It has 21 stations in Fremont, Union City, Hayward, San Leandro, Oakland, Berkeley, El Cerrito, Richmond, Milpitas, and San Jose. It is the only of the five primary BART services that does not run through the Transbay Tube to San Francisco; however, it shares tracks with the four other primary services in the East Bay.

History[]

The Richmond–Fremont line was the first BART line to open. Initial services between MacArthur and Fremont began on September 11, 1972, with full service to Richmond on January 29, 1973.^[3] The extension to Warm Springs/South Fremont station opened on March 25, 2017.^[4] Until September 10, 2018, weekday service on the line only ran to Fremont station until direct San Francisco service ended around 6 pm.^[5]

A second extension to Berryessa/North San José station as part of the Silicon Valley extension project opened on June 13, 2020.^[6][7]

Route[]

The Berryessa/North San José–Richmond line runs primarily northwest-southeast though the East Bay. It uses the R-Line between Richmond station and just north of MacArthur station, the K-Line between there and the Oakland Wye, the A-Line between the Wye and Fremont station, and the S-Line between Fremont and Berryessa/North San José station. Most sections are at-grade or elevated; the line runs through tunnels in downtown Berkeley, downtown Oakland, and under Lake Elizabeth.

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