College Park station (Caltrain)
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Location | 780 Stockton Avenue College Park, San Jose, California | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 37°20′34″N 121°54′56″W / 37.34278°N 121.91556°WCoordinates: 37°20′34″N 121°54′56″W / 37.34278°N 121.91556°W | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Owned by | Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Platforms | 2 island platforms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tracks | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fare zone | Fare Zone 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Original company | Southern Pacific | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2018 | 108 per weekday[1] ![]() | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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College Park is a lightly used Caltrain station serving the College Park neighborhood and the Bellarmine College Preparatory school in San Jose, California. It is served by two weekday-only round trips, with no weekend service.
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 at Bellarmine College Preparatory who use the station have a history of protesting to protect it from removal.[6]
Due to the small size of the station, only three cars of each train are capable of opening their doors to allow passengers to board and alight. The platform is planned to be rebuilt to accommodate through-running California High-Speed Rail service.[7]
References[]
- ^ "2018 Annual Count Key Findings Report" (PDF). Caltrain. 2018.
- ^ "Southern Pacific Peninsula Time Tables". Southern Pacific Lines. April 1, 1978. Archived from the original on July 1, 2007.
- ^ 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.
- ^ London, Jack (1903). . 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.
- ^ "2014 Caltrain Annual Passenger Counts, Attachment 1 – Caltrain Service History" (PDF). Caltrain. 2014. Retrieved March 15, 2015.
- ^ "Caltrain Cutbacks Would Take Hundreds of Bellarmine High Students Off Track". Gilroy, CA Patch. 2011-03-21. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
- ^ "San Francisco to San Jose Project Section Draft Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Impact Statement Volume 1 Chapter 2" (PDF). CHSRA. July 2020. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
External links[]
Media related to College Park station (Caltrain) at Wikimedia Commons
- Station information (Caltrain)
- Caltrain stations in Santa Clara County, California
- Railway stations in San Jose, California
- Railway stations in California at university and college campuses
- Former Southern Pacific Railroad stations in California
- Santa Clara County, California railway station stubs
- San Jose, California building and structure stubs