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The pedestrian bridge of the Bayshore station as limited-stop train flies by. |
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400 Tunnel Avenue |
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| Lines | Caltrain Local service
Limited-stop service
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| Platforms | 2 side platforms | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 4 | |||||||||||||||
| Parking | Available | |||||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Lockers available | |||||||||||||||
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| Owned by | Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board | |||||||||||||||
| Fare zone | Fare Zone 1 | |||||||||||||||
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| Passengers (2007) | 1,771[1] 3% | |||||||||||||||
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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.
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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.
Muni 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 [2] and the Brisbane Baylands[3], 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.[4]
Bayshore Station was established by the Southern Pacific 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-acre (1.0 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.
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