San Bernardino Line

San Bernardino Line

The Santa Fe Depot in San Bernardino
Overview
Type Commuter rail
System Metrolink
Status Operating
Locale Greater Los Angeles Area and Inland Empire
Termini Los Angeles Union Station
San Bernardino Santa Fe Depot
Stations 14
Daily ridership 12,633 (2012)
Operation
Operator(s) Metrolink
Character Elevated and surface-level
Technical
Line length 56.5 miles (90.9 km)
Track gauge 4 ft 8 12 in (1,435 mm)
Operating speed 35 mph (56 km/h)[1]
Route map

Antelope Valley Line &
Ventura County Line
Union Station Amtrak
91 Line, Riverside Line
& Orange County Line
Cal State L.A.
El Monte
Baldwin Park
Covina
Fairplex
(fair days only)
Pomona (North)
Claremont
Montclair
Upland
Rancho Cucamonga
Auto Club Speedway
(race days only)
Fontana
Rialto
91 Line and
Inland Empire-Orange County Line
San Bernardino Amtrak
future extension
San Bernardino Transit Center
Redlands

The San Bernardino Line is a Metrolink line running between Downtown Los Angeles east through the San Gabriel Valley and the Inland Empire to San Bernardino. It is one of the three initial lines (along with the Santa Clarita and Ventura Lines) on the original Metrolink system. When the line opened in 1992 service extended only as far as Pomona, but in 1993 the line was extended to San Bernardino. Saturday service was added in 1997 and Sunday service in 1998.

As of August 2016, 20 trains run Los Angeles to San Bernardino on weekdays.[2] It is the first of the seven Metrolink lines to run on both Saturday and Sunday, with 10 trains to San Bernardino on Saturdays and 7 on Sundays. Two Saturday and two Sunday trains would continue to the downtown Riverside station until July 5, 2014, when weekend service on the 91 Line began.

Stations

The San Bernardino Line serves the following stations:

  1. Union Station, Downtown Los Angeles
  2. Cal State L.A. station, University Hills, Eastside Los Angeles
  3. El Monte station, El Monte
  4. Baldwin Park station, Baldwin Park
  5. Covina station, Covina
  6. Pomona North station, Pomona
  7. Claremont station, Claremont
  8. Montclair station, Montclair
  9. Upland station, Upland
  10. Rancho Cucamonga station, Rancho Cucamonga
  11. Fontana station, Fontana
  12. Rialto station, Rialto
  13. Santa Fe Depot, San Bernardino

There are also platforms at the Fairplex in Pomona and Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, but these are used only for special events.[3][4]

Route

After leaving Union Station and crossing the Los Angeles River, the line follows the San Bernardino Freeway and El Monte Busway until just after the Cal State L.A. station; it then runs in the median of the San Bernardino Freeway to the El Monte Station along the former route of the Pacific Electric Railway's San Bernardino Line. Starting at El Monte, the line parallels the Union Pacific's Sunset Route (ex-Southern Pacific) for a few miles before turning northeast at Bassett 34°03′03″N 117°59′50″W / 34.0507°N 117.9971°W / 34.0507; -117.9971 onto a Southern Pacific branch. At 34°05′38″N 117°43′49″W / 34.0939°N 117.7303°W / 34.0939; -117.7303 (a former Southern Pacific/Pacific Electric-Santa Fe crossing), it switches to the Santa Fe; from Claremont to just west of San Bernardino it follows what was the Santa Fe's Pasadena Subdivision (and before that the Second District of the LA Division, the Santa Fe passenger main line). The San Bernardino Line is mostly single track with 6 passing sidings and short sections of double track near Covina, between Pomona and Montclair, and west of Fontana.

Redlands extension

San Bernardino Associated Governments (SANBAG) conducted an environmental impact report (EIR) to extend rail service southeast from the current eastern terminus in San Bernardino to Redlands.[5] The extension was planned to follow the 9-mile (14 km) Redlands Subdivision and comprise two phases:[6]

References

  1. "Metrolink Fact Sheet for June 2012" (PDF). Metrolink. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
  2. "Metrolink Timetable" (PDF). June 6, 2016. Retrieved August 12, 2016.
  3. "Metrolink to make special stop at the L.A. County Fair" (Press release). Metrolink. August 26, 2013. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
  4. "Special Metrolink service to Auto Club 400 available" (Press release). Metrolink. March 12, 2014. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
  5. "Redlands Passenger Rail Project". SANBAG. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
  6. "Redlands First Mile and Passenger Rail Project" (PDF). Archived October 6, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
  7. "Downtown San Bernardino Passenger Rail Project". SANBAG. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
  8. Macduff, Cassie (February 26, 2014). "SAN BERNARDINO: Agencies pool money for transit center, Metrolink extension". The Press Enterprise.
  9. "Destination: San Bernardino" (PDF). SANBAG. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
  10. Hagen, Ryan (2015-09-08). "San Bernardino Transit Center opening makes commuting easier". The San Bernardino Sun. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
  11. "3rd Street Closure at Railroad Tracks" (PDF). SANBAG. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
  12. Valenzuela, Beatriz (2017-03-01). "Construction to interrupt Metrolink service in Inland Empire". The San Bernardino Sun. Retrieved 2017-05-05.
  13. "Metrolink train service resumes at San Bernardino, Rialto stations". The San Bernardino Sun. 2017-04-17. Retrieved 2017-05-05.
  14. "Train Testing to Begin as Part of Downtown San Bernardino Passenger Rail Project". SBCTA Newsroom. San Bernardino County Transportation Authority. 2017-04-12. Retrieved 2017-05-05.
  15. MacDuff, Cassie (16 May 2011). "Imperfect Rail Solution". The Press-Enterprise. Archived from the original on 4 November 2011. Retrieved 5 November 2011.
  16. Emerson, Sandra (September 15, 2015). "SanBAG gives updates on cost, timeline of Redlands rail project". Redlands Daily Facts. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  17. Emerson, Sandra (2016-08-19). "Where Redlands rail project is heading". The Press-Enterprise. Retrieved 2017-05-01.
  18. "Hybrid Rail Being Studied for Future Use along the Metrolink Corridor". goSBCTA e-Newsletter. San Bernardino County Transportation Authority. March 2017. Retrieved 2017-05-05.
  19. Emerson, Sandra (2015-11-07). "SanBAG begins design of Redlands Passenger Rail Project". Redlands Daily Facts. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
  20. "Redlands Passenger Rail Project Fact Sheet" (PDF). SANBAG. December 2015. Retrieved 2016-03-15.

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