Owned by City of Oxnard Train operators MetrolinkAmtrak Opened 1987 Platforms in use 1 | Tracks 2 Bus stands 16 Owner Oxnard | |
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Location 201 East Fourth StreetOxnard, California 93030United States Bus operators Gold Coast TransitVISTAGreyhound Lines Address Oxnard, CA 93030, United States Similar | ||
Oxnard transit center amtrak station
The Oxnard Transit Center, originally known as the Oxnard Transportation Center, is an intermodal transit center in historic downtown Oxnard, California. The station serves Amtrak and Metrolink trains as well as local and regional buses. Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner from San Luis Obispo to San Diego, Amtrak's Coast Starlight from Los Angeles Union Station to Seattle, Washington, and Metrolink's Ventura County Line from Los Angeles Union Station to East Ventura stop here. Ten Pacific Surfliner trains serve the station daily, and six Metrolink trains serve the station each weekday. The Coast Starlight operates one train daily in each direction.
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- Oxnard transit center amtrak station
- Gold Coast Transit
- VISTA
- Other connections
- Neighborhood and destinations
- Historic location
- References
Of the 74 California stations served by Amtrak, Oxnard was the 28th-busiest in FY2012, boarding or detraining an average of approximately 223 passengers daily.
Gold Coast Transit
1A/B – Oxnard – Port Hueneme
2 – Colonia
3 – Oxnard – Naval Base
4A/B – North Oxnard
5 – Seabridge
6 – Oxnard – Ventura
8 – Centerpoint Mall, via Oxnard College
19/20 – Central Oxnard
VISTA
Conejo Connection – Oxnard – Camarillo – Thousand Oaks – Warner Center Transit Hub
Other connections
Neighborhood and destinations
Historic location
The Southern Pacific Railroad constructed a spur at Montalvo in late 1897 on the original route connecting Ventura to Los Angeles through the Santa Clara River Valley. This spur was needed for shipping construction equipment to the site of a new beet sugar refinery. A wooden railroad trestle and rail line were constructed over the Santa Clara River as the spur headed south, reaching the new settlement here on the relatively isolated coastal plain in April 1898. The rail line turned here from the north-south alignment to east-west as they continued building the tracks to Santa Susana in the Simi Valley. With the completion of the Santa Susana Tunnel, this became the most direct route between Los Angeles and San Francisco. The new settlement was named after the factory owner and in 1904 traffic on the coast railroad line was rerouted through Oxnard.
In 1987, this new station was constructed on the northerly end of the curve while the former station remained at the southerly end. The former depot has continued in use as a maintenance and freight yard office by Union Pacific. Metrolink service started in 1994 after the Northridge earthquake damaged Simi Valley Freeway and the Federal Emergency Management Agency agreed to temporarily fund the extension of service. The trains were stored overnight in a temporary layover facility in the Montalvo neighborhood of Ventura where the Santa Paula branch line owned by the Ventura County Transportation Commission connects to the Coast Line.
The station was formerly on State Route 1 but in 2014, Oxnard Boulevard was relinquished to the city in anticipation of a bypass route east of the Oxnard that would meet US 101 at the rebuilt interchange at Rice Avenue. In 2015, a southbound Metrolink train left this station and crashed into a truck at Rice Avenue about 2 miles from the station injuring several passengers and an engineer (fatally). (See article: 2015 Oxnard train derailment). A Rice Avenue overpass that would take the rerouted State Route 1 over the rail line has long been proposed at the site where the accident occurred. The new overpass would include an interchange with State Route 34 (known as 5th Street for most of the route) that parallels the rail line to Camarillo.