Santa Clara–Great America station

For the VTA light rail station, see Great America station.

Santa Clara–Great America station (called Great America station by ACE) is a train station in Santa Clara, California. It hosts Amtrak's Capitol Corridor trains and Altamont Corridor Express (ACE) trains. The station is close to Levi's Stadium and California's Great America. Of the 75 California stations served by Amtrak, Great America was the 20th-busiest in FY2019, boarding or detraining an average of about 533 passengers daily.^[5]

Santa Clara–Great America
Santa Clara – Great America station in 2012
General information
Location	5099 Stars & Stripes Drive Santa Clara, California United States
Coordinates	37.406645°N 121.96688°W / 37.406645; -121.96688
Owned by	City of Santa Clara and Union Pacific Railroad[1]
Line(s)	UP Coast Subdivision[2]
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	1
Connections	(at Lick Mill station) VTA Bus: Altamont Corridor Express shuttles
Construction
Parking	189 spaces[3]
Bicycle facilities	12 lockers[4]
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Station code	Amtrak: GAC
History
Opened	May 21, 1993
Passengers
FY 2023	65,006[5] (Amtrak)
Services
Preceding station Amtrak Following station Fremont toward Auburn Capitol Corridor Santa Clara–University toward San Jose      Coast Starlight does not stop here Preceding station Altamont Corridor Express Following station Fremont toward Stockton San Jose – Stockton Santa Clara toward San Jose
Location

Great America was proposed as a station for the new Capitols service in 1990.^[6] The Capitols began operation in 1991; Santa Clara–Great America station opened as an infill station on May 21, 1993.^[7]

Transit connections

Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) provides connecting shuttles to employers in Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Milpitas, and North San Jose.^[8]

The station does not offer direct access to the VTA light rail, but the system's Lick Mill station is located 0.2 miles (0.32 km) to the east and Great America station is (located at the California's Great America theme park) is 0.6 miles (0.97 km) to the west.

References

1. "Santa Clara, CA – Great America (GAC) – Great American Stations". Retrieved March 5, 2022.
2. SMA Rail Consulting (April 2016). "California Passenger Rail Network Schematics" (PDF). California Department of Transportation. p. 5.
3. "Great America Station". www.vta.org. Retrieved May 5, 2022.
4. "BikeLink Locations". BikeLink. Retrieved May 5, 2022.
5. "Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2023: State of California" (PDF). Amtrak. March 2024. Retrieved June 26, 2024.
6. Evangelista, Benny (September 24, 1990). "Commute train service back on track". Oakland Tribune. pp. A-6, A-8 – via Newspapers.com.
7. National Association of Railroad Passengers (June 11, 1993). "Hotline #777". Archived from the original on December 12, 2013. Retrieved July 31, 2012.
8. "ACE Shuttles" (PDF). Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority. July 2, 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 12, 2022. Retrieved April 12, 2020.

External links

Media related to Santa Clara – Great America station at Wikimedia Commons

• Great America – ACE
• Santa Clara, CA–Great America – Amtrak
• Santa Clara, CA–Great America – Station history at Great American Stations (Amtrak)
• Santa Clara-Great America – USA RailGuide (TrainWeb)
• Great America Station – VTA