Fullerton Transportation Center

Fullerton
Amtrak inter-city rail station Metrolink commuter rail station
Fullerton Train Station, trackside
Location	120 East Santa Fe Avenue Fullerton, California 92832[1] United States
Coordinates	33°52′07″N 117°55′20″W / 33.868612°N 117.9223°W / 33.868612; -117.9223Coordinates: 33°52′07″N 117°55′20″W / 33.868612°N 117.9223°W / 33.868612; -117.9223
Owned by	BNSF Railway & City of Fullerton
Platforms	2 side platforms & 1 bay platform
Tracks	4
Construction
Parking	250 spaces
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Station code	FUL (Amtrak)
History
Opened	1923 (UP) 1930 (AT&SF)
Rebuilt	1993
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	370,334[2]  9.2% (Amtrak)
Services
Amtrak Los Angeles toward Goleta, Los Angeles, or San Luis Obispo Pacific Surfliner Anaheim toward San Diego (Union Station) Los Angeles Terminus Southwest Chief Riverside toward Chicago Buena Park toward Los Angeles Union Station 91 Line West Corona toward Riverside – Downtown Orange County Line Anaheim toward Oceanside   Former services   Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station Los Angeles Terminus Desert Wind Discontinued in 1997 San Bernardino toward Chicago Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Los Angeles Terminus Main Line Via Fullerton, Riverside Placentia toward Chicago Dearborn Station Corona Major stations toward Chicago Dearborn Station Surf Line Anaheim toward San Diego
Location
Santa Fe Railway Passenger and Freight Depot (Fullerton, California)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	140 East Santa Fe Avenue, Fullerton, California
Area	1 acre (0.4 ha)
Built	1930
Architectural style	Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival
NRHP Reference #	91002031[3]
Added to NRHP	5 February 1992
Fullerton Union Pacific Depot
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	100 East Santa Fe Avenue, Fullerton, California
Area	0.8 acres (0.3 ha)
Built	1923
Architectural style	Mission Revival style/Spanish Colonial Revival
NRHP Reference #	83003551[3]
Added to NRHP	12 October 1983

The Fullerton Transportation Center^[4][1] is a passenger rail and bus station located in Fullerton, Orange County, California, United States.

It is served by Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner and Southwest Chief trains, and Metrolink's 91 Line and Orange County Line trains. It is also a major bus depot for the Orange County Transportation Authority, and is one of the major transportation hubs of Orange County.^[4]

History

The station has two historic depots on site: one built in 1923 by the Union Pacific Railroad,^[5] and the other built in 1930 by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.^[6] Both depots are on the National Register of Historic Places.^[5][6]

The 1930 Santa Fe depot serves as an Amtrak ticket office and passenger waiting area and has a cafe. It features Spanish Colonial Revival style architecture, as evidenced by the stuccoed walls, red tile roof, and decorative wrought ironwork.^[7]

The Union Pacific Railroad was the third railway to lay tracks through Fullerton and to build a depot.^[8] This helped firmly establish Fullerton as the regional rail center for northern Orange County. The 1923 Mission Revival style building was designed by John and Donald Parkinson. ^[9] Fullerton's redevelopment agency moved the station next to the Santa Fe depot in 1980 to preserve it.^[5] Today it is occupied by an Old Spaghetti Factory restaurant.^[8]

In the late 1990s, the Fullerton Railway Plaza Association (FRPA) began fundraising and lobbying for the creation of an interactive railroad attraction or museum at the site,^[10] while continuing preservation efforts. Starting in 1999 the Amtrak station and the FRPA were hosts for the annual "Fullerton Railroad Days" event at the Santa Fe depot, an event that attracted between 30,000 to 40,000 participants. Due to the city not supporting the FRPA museum, Railroad Days was not held in 2009, and FRPA looked elsewhere, choosing to hold its 2010 event in neighboring Brea.^[11] The organization subsequently changed its named to the Southern California Railway Plaza Association (SCRPA).

Service

Numerous trains stop each day at Fullerton, as the station is served by Amtrak's popular Pacific Surfliner service, as well as two Metrolink commuter lines. Amtrak's long-distance Southwest Chief also stops once daily in each direction, but only to discharge westbound or board eastbound passengers.

Platforms and tracks

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fullerton Transportation Center.

• Amtrak – Stations – Fullerton, CA

• Metrolink – Fullerton
• City of Fullerton: official Fullerton Transportation Center website
• Great American Stations (Amtrak): Fullerton (FUL)