Riverside
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Amtrak and Metrolink (Southern California) train station | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Metrolink #887 waits at the station's south platform.
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Location | 4066 Vine Street Riverside, CA 92507 United States |
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Coordinates | 33°58′33″N 117°22′12″W / 33.9757°N 117.3699°WCoordinates: 33°58′33″N 117°22′12″W / 33.9757°N 117.3699°W | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Owned by | Riverside County Transportation Commission | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Line(s) | BNSF Railway | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Platforms | 1 side platform, 2 island platforms | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tracks | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Connections | Riverside Transit Agency | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Parking | 710 free spaces | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Station code | RIV | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | 1993 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Passengers (2013) | 12,431 1.9% (Amtrak) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Joseph Tavaglione Riverside – Downtown Station is a train station in Riverside, California, United States that opened in 1993. It is served by one Amtrak intercity rail line and three Metrolink commuter rail lines, as well as Riverside Transit Agency buses and Amtrak Thruway and Megabus coach service. The station is owned by the Riverside County Transportation Commission, and is referred to as Riverside by Amtrak and as Riverside – Downtown by Metrolink.
The current station opened on June 14, 1993, returning rail service to Riverside following the closure of the Santa Fe depot in 1984. The original depot, built in 1927, still stands a few blocks north of the current station. The original depot was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. The Southwest Chief added a stop in Riverside in April 2002, after 18 years of not stopping at Riverside.
In December 2012, the station was renamed after Joseph Tavaglione, a local businessman and chair of the California Transportation Commission.
The Southwest Chief provides one train per day in each direction through the station, one to Los Angeles and one to Chicago, which boards from the station's South platform. In conjunction with the California Department of Transportation, Amtrak California also provides two Thruway Motorcoach routes: to Bakersfield, with connections to the San Joaquins for the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento; and to Fullerton, with connections to the Pacific Surfliner for San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego.