Van Nuys station


Van Nuys is an Amtrak and Metrolink train station in the Van Nuys neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The station is served by eleven weekday round trips on the Metrolink Ventura County Line, five daily round trips of the Amtrak Pacific Surfliner, and one daily round trip of the Amtrak Coast Starlight.
The station was served by the short-lived CalTrain service in 1982-83. Service was restored with the Amtrak San Diegan in 1988, and Metrolink service began in 1992. The station will be a stop on the planned East San Fernando Valley Transit Corridor light rail line, which will run on Van Nuys Boulevard.

History

Panorama City station opened with the inauguration of CalTrain on October 18, 1982. The short-lived service ended on March 1, 1983. Amtrak service to Van Nuys began on June 26, 1988, when one San Diegan round trip was extended to Santa Barbara. Metrolink began Ventura County Line service with a stop at Van Nuys on October 26, 1992. A modern glass-and-concrete Van Nuys station building, funded by Caltrans, opened on December 18, 1995.
The station originally had a single side platform serving the southern track of the two-track Ventura Subdivision. (A third track to the north is part of the Union Pacific Railroad Gemco Yard. In January 2018, Metrolink began construction of an island platform - which serves both main tracks - and a pedestrian underpass. Original plans called for a second side platform instead, but the island platform design had fewer impacts. The project was originally to be completed in late 2019, but was not officially finished until January 2020.