Firestone station is an elevated
light rail
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station on the
A Line of the
Los Angeles Metro Rail
The Los Angeles Metro Rail is an urban rail transit system serving Los Angeles County, California, United States, consisting of six lines: four light rail lines (the A, C, E and K lines) and two rapid transit lines (the B and D lines), ...
system. The station is located between Graham Avenue and the Union Pacific freight railroad's Wilmington Subdivision (the historic route of the
Pacific Electric Railway
The Pacific Electric Railway Company, nicknamed the Red Cars, was a privately owned mass transit system in Southern California consisting of electrically powered streetcars, interurban cars, and buses and was the largest electric railway system ...
), and elevated over the intersection of
Firestone Boulevard, after which the station is named, in the unincorporated
Los Angeles County
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community of
Firestone Park.
Service
Hours and frequency
Connections
, the following connections are available:
*
Los Angeles Metro Bus
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:
*
the Link: Florence-Firestone/Walnut Park
Notable places nearby
The station is within walking distance of the following notable places:
* Colonel
Leon H. Washington County Park
References
External links
Metro website
A Line (Los Angeles Metro) stations
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1990
1990 establishments in California
Pacific Electric stations
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