Stanford 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 f ...

station in

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, near the

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on the Stanford University campus. It is not a regular stop; instead, it is only in service for Stanford football home games and other large events at the stadium. The usual stop for the university is the

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. The station does not have ticket vending machines; however, when in use, Caltrain staff will be present with handheld

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readers so people can tag on and off. Service to the station has existed since at least 1922 (one year after

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opened). In 1994, an estimated 20% of the visitors to the

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games at Stanford arrived by train.

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Caltrain stations in Santa Clara County, California Stanford University Railway stations in the United States opened in 1922 Former Southern Pacific Railroad stations in California {{SantaClaraCountyCA-railstation-stub