Emeryville's Amtrak Train Station is an Amtrak station in Emeryville, California, United States.
The station has one side platform and one island platform serving the eastern two tracks of the Union Pacific Railroad Martinez Subdivision.
A pedestrian bridge connects the side platform and station building with commercial areas on Shellmound Street to the west.
Because Emeryville is closer to the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge than Oakland – Jack London Square station, it is the primary connection point between Amtrak trains and Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach bus service in the Bay Area.
Emeryville was named after Joseph Stickney Emery, who came during the Gold Rush and acquired large tracts of land on San Francisco Bay. In 1884, Emery was president of a narrow-gauge railroad that ran from Oakland to Orinda, to the Santa Fe right-of-way.
Before colonization by the Spanish, the area that would become Emeryville was the site of extensive Native American settlements for more than 2,400 years, as the local mudflats had abundant shellfish, hunting, fishing, and oak trees; the acorns of which they used as food. Close by the present-day station lie the remnants, beneath the Bay Street Shopping Center, of a major native shell mound created from thousands of years of year-round ceremonial feasting and burial. This mound is the largest of more than 400 which lay in the Bay Area. It is estimated that more than 700 burials were made in the mound. The city, with the native Ohlone representatives, has incorporated memorialization and interpretive elements into the Bay Street project and relocated many of the burials.
Today, in the city’s post-industrial era, the old Santa Fe and Key System yards have been turned into a large shopping and residential areas; biotechnology and software have replaced heavy industry; and the city is renowned as the home of Pixar Studios, famous for its 3-D graphics films. Strong real estate development has occurred in the area surrounding the new station, spurred largely by the ideal location of Emeryville between Berkeley and Oakland, and adjacent to San Francisco. There has been tremendous commercial and residential growth around the station.
The best way to get to/from Emeryville's Amtrak Train Station is to book a transfer from Intui. On the site, all prices are final, without hidden fees. Choose the right car for you and your company and just enjoy the ride in a comfortable, cool car. When ordering a return transfer, you just know that you will arrive on time for your flight. Transfers to and from the port of Cincinnati are strictly paid by check, with no additional fees or tips. You know in advance the cost of your travel expenses.