Burlingame station is a

Caltrain Caltrain (reporting mark JPBX) is a commuter rail line in California, serving the San Francisco Peninsula and Santa Clara Valley (Silicon Valley). The southern terminus is in San Jose, California, San Jose at the Tamien station with weekday r ...

commuter rail station in

Burlingame, California Burlingame () is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States. It is located on the San Francisco Peninsula and has a significant shoreline on San Francisco Bay. The city is named after diplomat Anson Burlingame and is known for its ...

. The station building was constructed in the Spanish Colonial Revival and

Mission Revival architecture The Mission Revival style was part of an Architectural style, architectural movement, beginning in the late 19th century, for the Revivalism (architecture), revival and reinterpretation of American colonial styles. Mission Revival drew inspira ...

styles in 1894, opening for service on October10 of that year. 18th-century tiles from the

Mission San Antonio de Padua Mission San Antonio de Padua is a Spanish missions in California, Spanish mission established by the Franciscan order in present-day Monterey County, California, Monterey County, California, near the present-day town of Jolon, California, Jolon. ...

at Jolon and the Mission Dolores Asistencia at San Mateo were used for the station roof. The station was designated a

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in 1971 and added to the

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as Burlingame Railroad Station in 1978. Burlingame has two

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 platforms, ...

s serving the line's two tracks. Until 2008, the station had a southbound side platform and a narrow

island platform An island platform (also center platform (American English) or centre platform (British English)) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway inte ...

between the tracks— a common configuration at Southern Pacific stations. This required use of the hold-out rule, where only one train could be at the station at a time. The northbound side platform was completed on February25, 2008, followed by a new southbound platform on April1, thus eliminating the hold-out rule. Between 2019 and 2021, a Caltrain deputy director secretly built an apartment inside the station, including a shower and a gym. He was convicted of misuse of public funds in 2025.

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{{National Register of Historic Places in California Burlingame, California History of San Mateo County, California Railway stations in the United States opened in 1894 National Register of Historic Places in San Mateo County, California Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in California Caltrain stations in San Mateo County, California Mission Revival architecture in California Spanish Colonial Revival architecture in California Former Southern Pacific Railroad stations in California