48th Street is a

side platform A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platform ...

ed Sacramento RT light rail station in the Elmherst neighborhood of

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, United States. The station was opened on July 14, 1994, and is operated by the

Sacramento Regional Transit District The Sacramento Regional Transit District, commonly referred to as SacRT (or simply RT), is the agency responsible for public transportation in the Sacramento, California area. It was established on April 1, 1973, as a result of the acquisition o ...

. It is served by the Gold Line. The station is located near the intersection of 48th Street and Highway 50. Included originally as part of the network, both this and the 39th Street station were deferred and not constructed in 1987 due to intense neighborhood opposition. However, both would open as

infill station An infill station (sometimes in-fill station) is a train station built on an existing passenger rail, rapid transit, or light rail line to address demand in a location between existing stations. Such stations take advantage of existing train serv ...

s in July 1994 due to a shift in attitude towards the rail project following its successful opening from the surrounding neighborhoods.

Platforms and tracks

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Sacramento Regional Transit light rail stations Railway stations in the United States opened in 1994 {{SacramentoCA-stub