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Berkeley was an original stop on the Capitol Corridor (originally named Capitols) when that service began in late 1991. San Joaquins service at Berkeley ended in 1993 because of low ridership, but trains continue to pass through the station without stopping. The station building was designated a Berkeley Landmark in 2001.
Berkeley station may refer to: Berkeley station (Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway), a former train station in Berkeley, California; Berkeley station (Southern Pacific Railroad), a former train station in Berkeley, California; Berkeley station (California), an Amtrak station in Berkeley, California
The station building was then converted to a restaurant [4] called the Santa Fe Bar and Grill [5] and functioned in that capacity until 2000. [2] In 2001, it was purchased by the Berkeley Montessori School and redeveloped into a private school. [2] That same year, the building was designated a City of Berkeley Landmark.
In 1972, the name "Berkeley Station" was revived as the name of the BART stop in downtown Berkeley, but was changed to "Downtown Berkeley" in the 1990s. The Amtrak stop adjacent to the old West Berkeley depot at Third and University is currently called "Berkeley Station". The depot itself survives, but is currently vacant.
The station was designed by Maher & Martens of San Francisco in collaboration with Parsons Brinckerhoff, Tudor Construction, and Bechtel. [8] In 1995, BART changed the name of the station from "Berkeley" to "Downtown Berkeley" in an effort to minimize confusion between this station and North Berkeley. [citation needed]
Instead, the area around the station became a parking lot. [3] The BART Board approved the name "North Berkeley" in December 1965. [4] Service at the station began on January 29, 1973. [5] Pursuant to a law passed by the state of California in 2018, the City of Berkeley and BART plan to replace the surface parking lots with transit-oriented ...
The East Bay Electric Lines were a unit of the Southern Pacific Railroad that operated electric interurban-type trains in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. [1] [2] Beginning in 1862, the SP and its predecessors [a] operated local steam-drawn ferry-train passenger service in the East Bay on an expanding system of lines, but in 1902 the Key System started a competing system of ...
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