Owned by Bay Area Rapid Transit Bicycle facilities Two Lockers Bike lockers 2 Lockers Owner Bay Area Rapid Transit | Tracks 3 (Amtrak)
2 (BART) Disabled access Yes Opened 29 January 1973 | |
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Location 1700 Nevin Way
Richmond, CA 94801 Platforms 1 island platform (Amtrak)
1 island platform (BART) Address Richmond, CA 94801, United States Lines Amtrak Capitol Corridor San Joaquin California Zephyr, Richmond–Fremont, Richmond–Daly City/Millbrae Parking spaces 624 spaces- Monthly Reserved, Daily (free), Extended Weekend (free)"limited to 24 Hours (Amtrak) Connections AC Transit, Golden Gate Transit Similar El Cerrito del Norte station, Pittsburg/Bay Point station, MacArthur station, 12th Street Oakland City Cent, El Cerrito Plaza station | ||
Richmond Station is an at-grade Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) and Amtrak station located in Richmond, California. Each system is served by an island platform. The Capitol Corridor, San Joaquins, and California Zephyr stop here and connect to BART. The station was rebuilt and rededicated on October 18, 2007. The Metro Walk - Richmond Transit Village is adjacent; north of the station is a BART rail yard. Richmond is the north end of BART's Richmond Line; the Richmond - Millbrae Line operates Monday-Saturday during the daytime (although the line does not travel south of Daly City on Saturdays) and the Richmond - Fremont Line operates at all times during regular BART service. This station has been identified as an important hub in the transportation network for metropolitan and statewide planning.
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History
Railway service to Richmond started around 1900 when the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (ATSF) opened the western terminus of its line near the port where the rail company ran ferries to take passengers across the bay to the city of San Francisco. Around that same time the Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) opened a station just south of the current station at MacDonald Avenue. BART service at this station began along dedicated tracks that paralleled the SP line on January 29, 1973. Amtrak service to the station started, using the SP line's tracks, in early 1978. A station house for the Amtrak service was constructed in 1984. A transit village and rebuild of the western approach to the station was started in 2007 and a dedication ceremony was held on October 18, 2007.
A transit store opened at the station in August 2008, joining other major stations in the system.
The Coast Starlight no longer stops at Richmond as of January 14, 2013.
Transit connections
The station is served by two bus agencies. AC Transit provides a variety of local and regional service. Buses connect the station to various locations such as Contra Costa College, Hilltop Mall, El Cerrito del Norte BART Station, which is a regional bus hub with connecting services to the North Bay, and Richmond Parkway Transit Center. Routes 70, 71, 72M, 74, and 76 provide local intra-city service and also feeder service into the BART and Amtrak systems. They link to Richmond neighborhoods and neighboring communities of Marina Bay, Belding Woods, Point Richmond, Atchison Village, Hilltop, El Sobrante, El Cerrito, East Richmond, North Richmond, Rollingwood, and Pinole. Routes 376 and 800 both provide late night service. The former is a late night circulator combing the most popular portions of the local lines running until 2 AM while the 800 runs a route which emulates the BART's Richmond-Daly City line between Richmond and downtown San Francisco during the hours that BART is closed. It is the main route in the All Nighter regional Bay Area network. Route 42 is a link between the Golden Gate Transit service area in Marin County and the AC Transit area in Contra Costa County, the line connects San Rafael Transit Center a major GGT hub in San Rafael with Richmond and El Cerrito del Norte BART stations. There is also a free Kaiser Shuttle service to the nearby Richmond Medical Center.
Ridership
Of the 74 California stations served by Amtrak, Richmond was the 16th-busiest in FY2012, boarding or alighting an average of about 773 passengers daily.