Arcadia station

Arcadia is an at-grade light rail station in the Los Angeles County Metro Rail system located at the intersection of 1st Avenue and Santa Clara Street in Arcadia, California. This station is served by the Metro L Line.[3]

For the station in Missouri, see Arcadia Valley station.

Arcadia
Location	200 N First Avenue, Arcadia
Coordinates	34.1425°N 118.0288°W / 34.1425; -118.0288
Owned by	Metro
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Construction
Parking	300 spaces (270 parking garage, 30 parking lot) 3 charging stations in garage
Bicycle facilities	20 bike rack spaces 24 bike lockers[1]
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Status	in service
History
Opened	c. January 1, 1911 (January 1, 1911)
Rebuilt	March 5, 2016 (March 5, 2016)[2]
Services
Preceding station Metro Rail Following station Sierra Madre Villa toward Atlantic L Line Monrovia toward APU/Citrus College Future service Sierra Madre Villa toward Downtown Long Beach A Line Monrovia toward APU/Citrus College
Former services Preceding station Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Following station Santa Anita toward Los Angeles Main Line Pasadena Subdivision Monrovia toward Chicago
Location

This station was built as part of the Gold Line Foothill Extension project Phase 2A, opening on March 5, 2016.[2][4] An overpass bridge was constructed over Santa Anita Avenue near the station.

Station layout

Platform	Southbound	←  L Linetoward Atlantic (Sierra Madre Villa)
	Island platform, doors will open on the left
	Northbound	→  L Linetoward APU/Citrus College (Monrovia) →

Former station

Former bridge

In Arcadia, a steel railroad bridge transitioned the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway between the I-210 and street grade. This bridge, between Baldwin and Santa Anita, was deemed unsafe following the 1994 Northridge earthquake and removed by Caltrans. The Phase 2A project constructed the "Iconic Freeway Structure or Gold Line Bridge" (IFS), as the replacement bridge. Designed by Minnesota artist Andrew Leicester, the bridge was unveiled in December 2012. Leicester's design was chosen from 17 others in a competitive process. The artist worked with L.A. design consultant AECOM as well as the bridge's builder, Skanska USA, on the final design and construction. The woven-basket look of the bridge's support columns emulate the woven baskets of the native Chumash people of the San Gabriel Valley while the underside of the bridge evokes a Western diamondback rattlesnake.[5][6]

Former service

1887 Arcadia Santa Fe Station in 1900, relocated in the 1970s to the Fairplex.

Arcadia train station was added a two years after the original the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad opened in 1885. The 1887 station was a Queen Anne-style passenger depot on 1st Street. The passenger station was decommissioned in 1951 and relocated in 1970 to the Fairplex, RailGiants Train Museum that is located inside the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds in Pomona.[7] The rail line was operated by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad (Santa Fe), and served Amtrak's Southwest Chief and Desert Wind, although the latter never stopped at Arcadia. The Santa Fe line served the San Gabriel Valley until 1994, when the 1994 Northridge earthquake weakened the bridge in Arcadia. After the line was decommissioned in 1994, Arcadia became the destination for Metrolink's Rose Bowl train on New Year's Day. In 1996, a Sprinter was run from Arcadia to Monrovia. For an unknown period of time, the station was the home of a private railcar called the Pine Bluff until its purchase in the mid-2000s.

Arcadia train station should not be confused with the Lucky Baldwin's Santa Anita Depot that was a freight depot at Santa Anita and Colorado and moved to Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden in 1970.

Service

The station was formally dedicated in a ceremony held on August 22, 2015. Regular light rail service to the station began on March 5, 2016.[8]

Bus connections

• Metro Local: 79, 487[9]
• Foothill Transit: 187
• Arcadia Transit

References

1. "Gold Line". Metro (LACMTA). Retrieved 6 March 2016.
2. Nelson, Laura J. (March 5, 2016). "Metro Gold Line extension tests San Gabriel Valley's support for transit". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
3. Pasadena to Azusa. Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority,
4. Foothill Extension. Metro (LACMTA)
5. David Ng (December 12, 2012), Artist to unveil Metro Gold Line bridge design in Arcadia Los Angeles Times.
6. "Art of the Journey, The Foothill Gold Line" (PDF). Foothill Gold Line Construction Authority. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
7. Santa Fe Station, Arcadia CA, circa 1887. Railway & Locomotive Historical Society Southern California Chapter.
8. "Arcadia Station dedicated on Foothills Gold Line". Trains Magazine. August 24, 2015. Retrieved August 24, 2015.
9. "Gold Line Timetable" (PDF). Metro (LACMTA). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-01. Retrieved 2016-02-18.