47th Avenue station

Coordinates: 38°30′42.86″N 121°28′33.36″W / 38.5119056°N 121.4759333°W

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47th Avenue

47th Avenue station platform

General information

Location

47th Avenue at 27th Street
Sacramento, California
United States

Coordinates

38°30′42.86″N 121°28′33.36″W / 38.5119056°N 121.4759333°W

Owned by

Sacramento Regional Transit District

Platforms

1 side platform, 1 island platform

Tracks

Connections

Sacramento Regional Transit: SmaRT Ride Franklin−South Sacramento

Construction

Structure type

At-grade

Parking

423 spaces^[1]

Accessible

Yes

History

Opened

September 26, 2003^[2]

Services

Preceding station	Sacramento Regional Transit District			Following station
Fruitridge toward Watt/I-80		Blue Line		Florin toward Cosumnes River College

Location

47th Avenue station is an at-grade light rail station on the Blue Line of the SacRT light rail system operated by the Sacramento Regional Transit District. The station is located in an exclusive right of way alongside the Union Pacific Railroad's Sacramento Subdivision at its intersection with 47th Avenue, after which the station is named, in the city of Sacramento, California.

The station is located on the northwest side of 47th Avenue, and serves the Campbell Soup Company manufacturing facility, surrounding industrial areas, and the 47th Avenue, Hogan, and 24th Street neighborhoods.

Platforms and tracks

Like nearly all stations built as part of the Blue Line Southwest Extension, 47th Avenue station has a rather unique layout with an island platform serving northbound trains and a side platform boarding area for southbound trains, integrated into a plaza that leads into the 423 space park and ride lot. The southbound tracks are embedded in the pavement, allowing passengers to cross to the northbound platform from any point in the plaza. The layout is both efficient and a cost-effective way of providing a pedestrian-train interface.^[3]

Freight track	← UP Sacramento Subdivision; No passenger service →
Northbound	← Blue Line toward Watt/I-80 (Fruitridge)
Island platform, doors open on the left
Southbound	→ Blue Line toward Cosumnes River College (Florin) →
Side platform, doors open on the right
Plaza	Park and ride lot, ticket machines