Lawrence station is a
Caltrain
Caltrain (reporting mark JPBX) is a California commuter rail line serving the San Francisco Peninsula and Santa Clara Valley (Silicon Valley). The southern terminus is in San Jose at Tamien station with weekday rush hour service running as fa ...
commuter rail station in
Sunnyvale, California
Sunnyvale () is a city located in the Santa Clara Valley in northwest Santa Clara County in the U.S. state of California.
Sunnyvale lies along the historic El Camino Real and Highway 101 and is bordered by portions of San Jose to the nor ...
. The station has four tracks with
side platform
A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platfo ...
s serving the outer tracks.
The original Lawrence station was built by the
San Francisco and San Jose Railroad
The San Francisco and San Jose Railroad (SF&SJ) was a railroad which linked the communities of San Francisco and San Jose, California, running the length of the San Francisco Peninsula. The company incorporated in 1860 and was one of the first ra ...
, which completed the first rail link between San Francisco and San Jose in 1864.
By August 1866, "Lawrence's" station had appeared in the timetable. It was named for Alfred Chester Lawrence, who owned the land in the area at the time. The San Francisco and San Jose Railroad was acquired by Southern Pacific, which continued to operate a station at Lawrence until 1945. In 1982 or 1983,
Caltrain reopened the station.
References
External links
Caltrain - Lawrence Station
Caltrain stations in Santa Clara County, California
Transportation in Sunnyvale, California
Former Southern Pacific Railroad stations in California
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