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San Jose Diridon is the central passenger rail depot for San Jose, California. It also serves as a transit hub for Santa Clara County and Silicon Valley.

The station is on the Union Pacific Coast Line tracks (formerly Southern Pacific) at 65 Cahill Street in San Jose. The depot is listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its Italian Renaissance Revival style architectural and historical significance.

The station is served by Caltrain, ACE, VTA light rail, and Amtrak. This is in addition to bus services by California Shuttle Bus, Amtrak Thruway Bus, Monterey-Salinas Transit, Santa Cruz Metro (Highway 17 Express), local VTA and employer shuttles and buses.

History

The station opened in December 1935 as Cahill Depot. The opening of the depot was the culmination of a 30-year effort to relocate {{convert|4.5 |mi}} of the Coast Line of the Southern Pacific Railroad away from the heavy traffic of the downtown area around the Market Street Depot,^[6] located at Market and Bassett Streets, to the eastern edge of Willow Glen, an industrial area in the 19th century and the former location of rail facilities belonging to other railroads, in 1935. The new depot replaced the Fourth Street line's station.

The Cahill Depot was a stop for several Southern Pacific passenger trains, including the famous San Francisco–Los Angeles train, the Coast Daylight. Other "named" trains that used the station were the all first-class Lark, and the Del Monte. It was also a major station on the Peninsula Commute, the SP's commuter service between San Jose and San Francisco.

Amtrak took over long distance passenger train service in 1971. Fourteen years later, Caltrans took over the Peninsula Commute and renamed it Caltrain.

Restoration of the station was finished in 1994, when the station was renamed Diridon Station after former Santa Clara County Supervisor Rod Diridon.^[7]

In 1996, Santa Clara County voters approved a half cent sales tax to fund the 1996 Measure B Transportation Improvement Project. Part of this project was the construction of the Vasona Light Rail extension which included a VTA light rail platform at the Diridon train depot.^[8] The official opening date for this light rail extension was October 1, 2005, however, revenue service at the San Fernando and Diridon Stations began on July 29, 2005 to accommodate attendees of the inaugural San Jose Grand Prix race.

The passenger platform was featured in the opening scene of Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie (1964) as representing the Hartford, Connecticut, train station. Margaret (Marnie) Edgar (Tippi Hedren) is seen walking down the platform, back to the camera with a yellow purse tucked under her left arm and carrying a suitcase with her right, setting down the suitcase and waiting for her train to arrive.

Ridership

Of Amtrak's 74 California stations, San Jose was the 19th-busiest in FY2010, boarding or detraining an average of approximately 643 passengers daily.^[9]

Architecture

The depot is in the Italian Renaissance Revival style, with a three-story central section flanked by two-story wings. The building, a compilation of rectangular sections, is 390 feet (118 m) long and 40 feet to 78 feet (12 to 24 m) wide. The central section, which contains the passenger waiting room, measures 40 by 80 feet (12 by 25 m) and is 33 feet (10 m) high. The high center pavilion housing the waiting room is constructed of steel columns and trusses. The side wings are framed with wood. The exterior walls are clad with tapestry brick or varied colors and arranged in an English bond pattern. The depot is in an industrial area formerly dominated by warehouses and related commercial businesses. Several vernacular sheds, a water tower, butterfly passenger sheds and the nearby Alameda underpass are all contributing buildings and structures within the railroad station.

The building was designed by Southern Pacific architect, John H. Christie, who had worked on the Southern Pacific remodeling of the Fresno depot in 1915 and later, in 1939, worked on Union Station in Los Angeles. This depot is one of only four Italian Renaissance Revival style depots in California, and the largest surviving depot of the San Francisco–San Jose line. The only other large depot built in California during the 1930s was the Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal.

Platforms and tracks

Transit connections

Future BART and California High-Speed Rail service

The San Jose Diridon station is planned as a future stop on the California High-Speed Rail line and Phase 2 of VTA's Silicon Valley San Jose BART extension in Santa Clara County. The high-speed rail track and platform locations have not been determined yet.

The BART station will be called Diridon and planned to be a subway station adjacent to the train station and Santa Clara Street. It will be located between the Santa Clara and Downtown San Jose BART stations with direct service to Santa Clara, San Francisco/Daly City (via the East Bay), and Richmond.^[5]

If these plans are completed, Diridon station would offer connections between six agencies' rail services: ACE, Amtrak's Capitol Corridor and Coast Starlight lines, BART, Caltrain, CHSR, and VTA light rail.

In 2009, the City of San Jose partnered with the Harvard University Graduate School of Design to study transportation and urban planning issues surrounding such a large-scale transit hub.^[10]

See also

Footnotes

1. ^{{CA rail schematics|page=13}}
2. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.amtrak.com/pdf/factsheets/CALIFORNIA15.pdf |title=Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2015 - State of California |publisher=Amtrak |format=pdf |date=November 2015 |accessdate=2015-12-11}}
3. ^{{cite web |title=2018 Annual Count Key Findings Report |publisher=Caltrain |url=http://www.caltrain.com/Assets/_Marketing/pdf/2018+Annual+Passenger+Counts.pdf |year=2018}}
4. ^{{NRISref|2006a}}
5. ^¹BART Silicon Valley Fact Sheet {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100711130539/http://www.vta.org/bart/documents/other/bart_fact.pdf |date=2010-07-11 }}. VTA - BART Silicon Valley, 2011.
6. ^San Jose's Market Street Depot
7. ^http://www.caltrain.com/caltrain_history.html
8. ^{{cite web | title = Vasona Project Description | work = Completed projects | publisher = Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority | date = 2008-09-15 | url = http://www.vta.org/projects/vasona/ | accessdate = 2008-11-16 }}
9. ^{{cite web |title=Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2012, State of California | date=November 2012 | url=http://www.amtrak.com/pdf/factsheets/CALIFORNIA12.pdf | format= PDF |accessdate=2013-05-11}}
10. ^{{cite press release | title = Diridon Station to Be Focus of Harvard Design Group | publisher = City of San Jose | date = 2009-02-10 | url = http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/diridon-station-to-be-focus-of-harvard-design-group-1242725.htm | accessdate = 2016-03-26 }}

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