Bayshore (Caltrain station)
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Bayshore Station is a Caltrain
commuter rail station
located in the Visitacion Valley District of San Francisco, California
. Like most other Caltrain stations, it is not staffed with ticket personnel. Tickets are available from Caltrain ticket machines.
intended to establish another light rail connection to the Bayshore station at Visitacion Valley in southern San Francisco with its new Third Street light rail extension. However, during the CTX Project, the Bayshore station was moved from San Francisco down south toward San Mateo County -- currently, the platform itself is in Brisbane
while the main parking lot is in San Francisco. To complicate matters, this connection has also been plagued by cost and design issues. The Third Street extension opened in early 2007 without the connection. Two proposed development projects adjacent to the station, the Visitacion TOD Project and the Brisbane Baylands, could hasten the planning and conversion of the Bayshore Station into an Intermodal Transit Station.
Currently it is approximately a five minute walk west to the Sunnydale Station
from the Bayshore Caltrain station.
in 1907 along the newly constructed Bayshore Cutoff. This rail line was built to create a faster and more direct route into San Francisco from the south. The railroad also planned to build an extensive terminal facility in Visitacion Valley that would serve as the primary maintenance and marshaling facility for the San Francisco Peninsula. Financial problems delayed completion of the project, and the 250 acres (1 km²) Bayshore rail yard and shops were not opened until 1918. The facility operated around the clock and employed over 1,000 workers.
The Bayshore shops were responsible for the maintenance of all of the locomotives assigned to the Southern Pacific's Coast Division which stretched south to Santa Barbara. By 1952, this was 133 steam engines, but by 1954, diesel-electric locomotives had become common enough that the Bayshore steam shops were closed. The roundhouse continued to service diesel locomotives, but the decline of industry and shipping in San Francisco and along the peninsula led to the closure of the yards in the early 1980s.
Caltrain
Caltrain is a California commuter rail line on the San Francisco Peninsula and in the Santa Clara Valley in the United States. The northern terminus of the rail line is in San Francisco, at 4th and King streets; its southern terminus is in Gilroy...
commuter rail station
Train station
A train station, also called a railroad station or railway station and often shortened to just station,"Station" is commonly understood to mean "train station" unless otherwise qualified. This is evident from dictionary entries e.g...
located in the Visitacion Valley District of San Francisco, California
San Francisco, California
San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...
. Like most other Caltrain stations, it is not staffed with ticket personnel. Tickets are available from Caltrain ticket machines.
Station amenities
- Caltrain Ticket Machines
- Caltrain 8-Ride Ticket Validators
- Pedestrian walkway above tracks to cross to the opposite platform.
Tracks
Four tracks pass through, two bypass rails in the middle and two side tracks for trains stopping at the station. During commute hours on weekdays, some Local and Limited Stop trains are held at Bayshore on the side tracks until the Baby Bullet passes on the bypass track. This is done because Baby Bullets often stop at further stations along the route before Local and Limited Stop trains, even if they depart San Francisco after the Local and Limited Stop trains. A centerline fence prevents passengers from running across the four rails.Unbuilt connection to Muni
MuniSan Francisco Municipal Railway
The San Francisco Municipal Railway is the public transit system for the city and county of San Francisco, California. In 2006, it served with an operating budget of about $700 million...
intended to establish another light rail connection to the Bayshore station at Visitacion Valley in southern San Francisco with its new Third Street light rail extension. However, during the CTX Project, the Bayshore station was moved from San Francisco down south toward San Mateo County -- currently, the platform itself is in Brisbane
Brisbane, California
Brisbane is a small city located in the northern part of San Mateo County, California on the lower slopes of San Bruno Mountain. It is on the northeastern edge of South San Francisco, next to the San Francisco Bay and near the San Francisco International Airport.The population was 4,282 as of...
while the main parking lot is in San Francisco. To complicate matters, this connection has also been plagued by cost and design issues. The Third Street extension opened in early 2007 without the connection. Two proposed development projects adjacent to the station, the Visitacion TOD Project and the Brisbane Baylands, could hasten the planning and conversion of the Bayshore Station into an Intermodal Transit Station.
Currently it is approximately a five minute walk west to the Sunnydale Station
Sunnydale Station
Sunnydale Station is an island platform light rail station of the San Francisco Municipal Railway's Muni Metro system located in the median of Bayshore Boulevard at Sunnydale Avenue in Visitacion Valley, San Francisco, California. This is the terminal for the T Third Street Muni Metro line...
from the Bayshore Caltrain station.
History
Bayshore Station was established by the Southern Pacific RailroadSouthern Pacific Railroad
The Southern Pacific Transportation Company , earlier Southern Pacific Railroad and Southern Pacific Company, and usually simply called the Southern Pacific or Espee, was an American railroad....
in 1907 along the newly constructed Bayshore Cutoff. This rail line was built to create a faster and more direct route into San Francisco from the south. The railroad also planned to build an extensive terminal facility in Visitacion Valley that would serve as the primary maintenance and marshaling facility for the San Francisco Peninsula. Financial problems delayed completion of the project, and the 250 acres (1 km²) Bayshore rail yard and shops were not opened until 1918. The facility operated around the clock and employed over 1,000 workers.
The Bayshore shops were responsible for the maintenance of all of the locomotives assigned to the Southern Pacific's Coast Division which stretched south to Santa Barbara. By 1952, this was 133 steam engines, but by 1954, diesel-electric locomotives had become common enough that the Bayshore steam shops were closed. The roundhouse continued to service diesel locomotives, but the decline of industry and shipping in San Francisco and along the peninsula led to the closure of the yards in the early 1980s.