Palo Alto station is an intermodal transit center in Palo Alto, California. It is served by Caltrain regional rail service, SamTrans and Santa Clara VTA local bus service, Dumbarton Express regional bus service, the Stanford University Marguerite Shuttle, and several local shuttle services. Palo Alto is the second-busiest Caltrain station after San Francisco, averaging 7,764 weekday boardings by a 2018 count. The Caltrain station has two side platforms serving the two tracks of the Peninsula Subdivision and a nearby bus transfer plaza.
A southbound train leaving Palo Alto station in 2018
The station building in 2010
The former baggage room in use as a bike station in 2010
Buses in the main bus plaza in 2018
Palo Alto is a charter city in the northwestern corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, named after a coastal redwood tree known as El Palo Alto.
Image: Palo Alto Baylands January 2013 005 (cropped)
Image: Ramona Street Architectural District, 261 Hamilton St., Palo Alto, CA 5 27 2012 2 20 25 PM
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Image: Palo Alto Medical Clinic, 300 Homer Ave., Palo Alto, CA 5 27 2012 4 21 09 PM