Downtown San Bernardino extension

San Bernardino Line
The Santa Fe Depot in San Bernardino
Overview
Type	Commuter rail
System	Metrolink
Status	Operating
Locale	Greater Los Angeles Area and Inland Empire
Termini	Los Angeles Union Station San Bernardino Santa Fe Depot
Stations	14
Daily ridership	12,633 (2012)
Operation
Operator(s)	Metrolink
Character	Elevated and surface-level
Technical
Line length	56.5 miles (90.9 km)
Track gauge	4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
Operating speed	35 mph (56 km/h)
Route map ■ Antelope Valley Line & ■ Ventura County Line Union Station ■ 91 Line, ■ Riverside Line & ■ Orange County Line Cal State L.A. El Monte Baldwin Park Covina Fairplex (fair days only) Pomona (North) Claremont Montclair Upland Rancho Cucamonga Auto Club Speedway (race days only) Fontana Rialto ■ 91 Line and ■ Inland Empire-Orange County Line San Bernardino future extension San Bernardino Transit Center Redlands This diagram:

The San Bernardino Line is a Metrolink line running between Downtown Los Angeles east through the San Gabriel Valley and the Inland Empire to San Bernardino. It is one of the three initial lines (along with the Santa Clarita and Ventura Lines) on the original Metrolink system. When the line opened in 1992 service extended only as far as Pomona, but in 1993 the line was extended to San Bernardino. Saturday service was added in 1997 and Sunday service in 1998.

As of August 2016, 20 trains run Los Angeles to San Bernardino on weekdays. It is the first of the seven Metrolink lines to run on both Saturday and Sunday, with 10 trains to San Bernardino on Saturdays and 7 on Sundays. Two Saturday and two Sunday trains would continue to the downtown Riverside station until July 5, 2014, when weekend service on the 91 Line began.

The San Bernardino Line serves the following stations:

There are also platforms at the Fairplex in Pomona and Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, but these are used only for special events.

After leaving Union Station and crossing the Los Angeles River, the line follows the San Bernardino Freeway and El Monte Busway until just after the Cal State L.A. station; it then runs in the median of the San Bernardino Freeway to the El Monte Station along the former route of the Pacific Electric Railway's San Bernardino Line. Starting at El Monte, the line parallels the Union Pacific's Sunset Route (ex-Southern Pacific) for a few miles before turning northeast at Bassett 34°03′03″N 117°59′50″W / 34.0507°N 117.9971°W / 34.0507; -117.9971 onto a Southern Pacific branch. At 34°05′38″N 117°43′49″W / 34.0939°N 117.7303°W / 34.0939; -117.7303 (a former Southern Pacific/Pacific Electric-Santa Fe crossing), it switches to the Santa Fe; from Claremont to just west of San Bernardino it follows what was the Santa Fe's Pasadena Subdivision (and before that the Second District of the LA Division, the Santa Fe passenger main line). The San Bernardino Line is mostly single track with 6 passing sidings and short sections of double track near Covina, between Pomona and Montclair, and west of Fontana.