Butler Road station
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| File:Northbound train passing Butler Road station site, July 2018.JPG A train passing the former station site in 2018 | |||||||||||
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| Location | Oyster Point Boulevard (Butler Road) South San Francisco, California | ||||||||||
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| Line | PCJPB Peninsula Subdivision[1] | ||||||||||
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| Closed | July 1983[2] | ||||||||||
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Butler Road station was a train station in South San Francisco, California, in operation until July 1983 on the Peninsula Commute, a commuter rail service run by Southern Pacific between San Francisco and communities on the San Francisco Peninsula. The Butler Road train shelter was built in 1926.[3]
History
[edit | edit source]The stop was next to the Shaw-Batcher steel mill, which opened in 1913; the mill was purchased by the Western Pipe and Steel Company in 1917.[4] 200 acres (81 ha) of land were acquired for a shipyard in August 1917,[5] and Shaw-Batcher was awarded a $30 million contract to build 18 merchant ships during World War I. The worksite population grew from 200 in early 1917 to 4,447 by July 1918, a month after the company's first ship was launched.[6] After the war, Western Pipe moved shipbuilding operations to San Pedro[7][8] and continued to produce pipe in South San Francisco, which was used in notable dam projects such as Hetch Hetchy, Grand Coulee, Shasta, and Folsom.[9] The shipyard was reactivated in 1939 for World War II,[10][11] and after the war ended, the site was sold in 1948 to Consolidated Steel (later United States Steel and its divisions),[12] which closed the mill in 1983.[12] Service to the Butler Road stop was also discontinued that year.[13]
The Butler Road stop was relatively little-used for much of its existence. In 1958, for example, only four of the 27 total northbound weekday commuter trains stopped at the station.[14] In 1978, only three of the 22 total northbound weekday trains stopped there.[15]
Butler Road, the roadway itself, has been renamed Oyster Point Boulevard.[16][17] The Peninsula Commute service was taken over by the State of California and renamed Caltrain in 1985.
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Butler Road on a 1978 Peninsula Commute timetable
- Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).[permanent dead link] This photograph shows the train line (from the lower left corner), Butler Road (running from lower left to lower right), and the Western Pipe factory.
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