Perris–Downtown station, (also known as Perris Transit Center and Downtown Perris station), is a

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Perris, California Perris is an old railway city in Riverside County, California, United States, located east-southeast of Los Angeles and north of San Diego. It is known for Lake Perris, skydiving, the Southern California Railway Museum, and its sunny dry cli ...

, that opened on January 11, 2010, with an eight-bay bus platform used by the

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. Train service to the station began on June 6, 2016, with the

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extension of the Metrolink

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system. It is located near the historic Perris Depot.

Station history

From 1892 to 1947, passenger service was provided by the

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. Service ceased due to decrease in ridership. Freight service continued on the line until development replaced the farmland in the area. Proposals to return passenger service to Perris were first proposed in the 1990s Planning was formalized in the form of an

station in the early 2010s. The bus portion of the station opened in January 2010, at the time, rail service was to start in late 2011, this was later postponed indefinitely. The rail plan was approved on January 16, 2013 At the time, it was reported that service would start in 2014, but that was pushed back by nearly two years. Train service finally began on June 6, 2016, marking the first regularly scheduled passenger train to arrive in Perris in nearly 59 years.

Services

Rail

In addition to the main platform, a track pocket will be constructed to allow trains from the

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to turn around. Construction will begin when funding permits. The junction connecting the main track to the museum was recently rebuilt in late April-early May 2025.

Bus

The

(RTA), which operates a network of buses around the

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, uses the eight bay bus platform at the station as a regional hub. the station is served by RTA routes 9, 19, 22, 27, 28, 30, 61 and 74.

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