San Francisco 4th and King Street station (previously 4th & Townsend), or Caltrain Depot is the north end of the Caltrain commuter rail line along the San Francisco Peninsula and Santa Clara Valley, and is a major area transit hub. It is next to a Muni Metro light rail station, which provides connections to downtown San Francisco and Bay Area Rapid Transit.

San Francisco
4th and King Street station seen from an I-280 off-ramp in 2019
General information
Location	700 Fourth Street at King Street San Francisco, California
Coordinates	37°46′35″N 122°23′40″W
Owned by	Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board
Line(s)	Peninsula Subdivision (Caltrain)[1]
Platforms	6 island platforms (Caltrain) 2 island platforms, 2 side platforms (Muni)[2]
Tracks	13 (Caltrain) 4 (Muni)[2]
Connections	Flixbus Muni: 10, 30, 45, 47, 81X, 82X, 83X, KT Bus, N Owl, N Bus
Construction
Parking	Paid parking nearby
Bicycle facilities	Parking station, Baywheels bike share station
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	1 (Caltrain)
History
Opened	1975 (Caltrain) 1998 (Muni)
Passengers
2018	15,427 (Caltrain mid-weekday average)[3]  1.5% (Caltrain)
Services Preceding station Caltrain Following station Terminus Local (L1) 22nd Street toward San Jose Diridon or Tamien Weekend Local (L2) Limited (L3) Millbrae toward San Jose Diridon, Tamien or Gilroy Limited (L4) 22nd Street toward San Jose Diridon, Tamien or Gilroy Limited (L5) 22nd Street toward San Jose Diridon or Tamien Baby Bullet (B7) Millbrae toward San Jose Diridon 22nd Street (reverse peak) toward San Jose Diridon Preceding station Muni Following station 2nd and King towards Ocean Beach N Judah Terminus 2nd and King towards Balboa Park T Third Street Mission Rock towards Sunnydale 4th and Brannan Opening 2023 towards Chinatown 2nd and King towards Jones and Beach E Embarcadero Suspended Terminus
Proposed service Preceding station California High-Speed Rail Following station Terminus Phase I (2031 Service) Millbrae towards Bakersfield San Francisco Terminus Phase I Full-Build Service Millbrae towards Anaheim or Merced
Track layout Legend Caltrain Central Subway (2022) 13 tracks 4th Street I-280 King Street
Location

History

The station is in the Mission Bay/China Basin area, bordered on the north by Townsend Street, east by 4th Street, and south by King Street. All 13 tracks approaching from the west presently terminate here, just short of 4th Street. The facility opened on June 21, 1975, replacing a station built in 1914 at 3rd and Townsend, one block away to the east.

4th & King is one block from Oracle Park, the home of the San Francisco Giants. Caltrain runs extra trains on game days to shuttle fans to and from the ballpark.

The Muni light-rail extension to the station was opened in 1998.[4]

Future

The Downtown Rail Extension project to the rebuilt Transbay Terminal includes the construction of an underground 4th and King station. The underground portion will be adjacent to the current station on the Townsend Street side,[5] but Caltrain will continue using the surface platforms.[6] Until that time, California High-Speed Rail trains are planned to utilize the existing station with modifications for that service.[6][7][8]

Following the opening of the Downtown Rail Extension project, California High-Speed Rail service will be extended to the new Transbay Terminal, though most trains are intended to stop at the underground 4th and Townsend as an additional, secondary stop for San Francisco.[9]

Muni service

4th and King hosts a number of Muni bus lines, the E Embarcadero historic streetcar line, and Muni's T Third Street and N Judah lines run to Market St downtown. The N Judah station platform is located on the median of King Street immediately southwest of the 4th and King intersection, while The T Third Street station platform is located on the median of 4th Street immediately southeast of the intersection.[2]

N Judah service replaced the J Church on June 30, 2007, two months after the J Church replaced the N Judah on April 7, 2007, on the Caltrain connection to downtown following the opening of the T line. The nearest BART access is the Powell Street station, a 1-mile (1.6 km) walk up 4th street then left on Market St.

Service to Chinatown via Muni's Central Subway will connect to this station in 2022 after a realignment of the T Third Street line's route.[10]

References

External links

Media related to San Francisco 4th and King Street station at Wikimedia Commons

• Caltrain - San Francisco station