Tracks 13 (Caltrain)
4 (Muni) Bicycle facilities 180 lockers
22 racks Owner Caltrain | Parking None Opened 1975 Platforms in use 6 | |
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Location 700 Fourth Street (Caltrain)
King Street at Fourth Street (E, N, S)
Fourth Street at King Street (T)
San Francisco, California Owned by Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board Line(s) Caltrain
Local service
Limited-stop service
Baby Bullet
Muni Metro
N Judah
S Castro Shuttle
T Third Street
Muni heritage railway
E Embarcadero Address San Francisco, CA 94107, United States Connections 10 - Townsend, 30 - Stockton, 45 - Union/Stockton, Van Ness Station, California Shuttle Bus Similar San Jose Diridon station, Embarcadero station, Millbrae station, Powell Street station, 22nd Street station | ||
Caltrain san jose to san francisco king st morning express
San Francisco 4th and King Street, 4th and King (previously 4th & Townsend), or Caltrain Depot is the north end of the Caltrain commuter rail line to the San Francisco Peninsula and Santa Clara Valley, and is a major area transit hub. It is next to a Muni Metro light rail station, which provides connections to downtown San Francisco and Bay Area Rapid Transit.
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History
The station is in the Mission Bay/China Basin area, bordered on the north by Townsend Street, east by 3rd Street, west by 4th Street and south by King Street. It opened on June 21, 1975, replacing a station built in 1914 at 3rd and Townsend, one block away.
The Muni extension to the station was opened in 1998.
Future
The Caltrain Downtown Extension project to the rebuilt Transbay Terminal includes the construction of an underground 4th and King station. The underground station will be next to the current station on the Townsend side. Several platforms on the current station will be retained as the terminal for non-electric trains, such as trains to Union City across Dumbarton Rail Bridge, trains to Gilroy, and trains that won't fit into the new station. Until that time, California High-Speed Rail trains may also utilize the existing station.
Services
All 96 weekday trains and all Saturday and Sunday trains utilize the station as a terminal; the station is unstaffed.
4th and King is one block from AT&T Park, the home of the San Francisco Giants. Caltrain usually operates special trains to transport fans to baseball games. Special trains usually depart about fifteen minutes after the last out. One special train, leaving 15 minutes after the last out, expresses to San Carlos, then stops at every station between San Carlos and San Jose Diridon. This train is not available for daytime weekday games. Giants fans can either walk or take the Muni to the ballpark. Muni operates special trains from Caltrain to the ballpark on game days.
Transit connections
4th and King hosts a number of Muni bus lines, the E Embarcadero historic streetcar line, and Muni's T Third Street and N Judah lines run to Market St downtown. The N Judah station platform is located on the median of King Street immediately southwest of the 4th and King intersection, while The T Third Street station platform is located on the median of 4th Street immediately southeast of the intersection.
N Judah service replaced the J Church on June 30, 2007, two months after the J Church replaced the N Judah on April 7, 2007 on the Caltrain connection to downtown following the opening of the T line. The nearest BART access is the Powell Street station, a 1-mile walk up 4th street then left on Market St. California Shuttle Bus runs to Los Angeles via Oakland and San Jose.
Service to Chinatown via Muni's Central Subway will connect to this station in 2019 after a realignment of the T Third Street line's route.