San Francisco 4th and King Street station
San Francisco 4th and King Street station, also known as the Caltrain Depot, is a train station in the SoMa district of San Francisco, California. It is presently the northern terminus of the Caltrain commuter rail line serving the San Francisco Peninsula and Santa Clara Valley. It is also the eastern terminus of the N Judah and E Embarcadero, as well as a stop along the T Third Street of the Muni network. The station is additionally the projected terminus for the first phase of the California High-Speed Rail project and a station once Phase 2 is completed.
4th and King station in December 2022
Southern Pacific's 3rd and Townsend terminal was replaced in 1975 by the current station.
N Judah trains at 4th and King
Caltrain is a California commuter rail line serving the San Francisco Peninsula and Santa Clara Valley. The southern terminus is in San Jose at Tamien station with weekday rush hour service running as far as Gilroy. The northern terminus of the line is in San Francisco at 4th and King Street. Caltrain has 28 regular stops, one limited-service weekday-only stop, one weekend-only stop (Broadway), and one football-only stop (Stanford). While average weekday ridership in 2019 exceeded 63,000, impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have been significant: in August 2022, Caltrain had an average weekday ridership of 18,600 passengers.
Southbound train at Palo Alto in 2014
A Southern Pacific locomotive pulls a Peninsula Commute train past Bayshore in April 1985.
A Caltrain car manufactured by Nippon Sharyo
Baby Bullet service was originally provided by MPI MP36PH-3C locomotives, although currently both types of equipment are used.