San Joaquin Street station, also known as Stockton – San Joaquin Street, is an

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station in

Stockton, California Stockton is a city in and the county seat of San Joaquin County in the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California. Stockton was founded by Carlos Maria Weber in 1849 after he acquired Rancho Campo de los Franceses. The city is named after R ...

. Originally built for the

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(which acquired the

San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railroad The San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railroad was a California rail line between Stockton and Bakersfield constructed in the late 1890s and very shortly thereafter purchased by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad and became their Val ...

), it is a stop for trains on Amtrak's '' San Joaquin'' line between

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and

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. The Mission Revival style building cost $24,470 to construct (), and includes typical design features such as

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ed walls, a red tile roof and shady arcades.Great American Stations
Accessed February 25, 2013. The San Joaquin Street station is one of two train stations in Stockton. ''San Joaquin'' trains running between

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and Bakersfield, as well as

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(ACE) trains do not pass this station and instead use the

Robert J. Cabral Station Robert J. Cabral Station (called Stockton – Downtown station or Stockton ACE station by Amtrak), is a railway station in Stockton, California. In 2003, the station building was named in honor of the late Robert J. Cabral, a San Joaquin County ...

closer to downtown. Two

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bus routes serve this station. Route 3 connects passengers to the other station in Stockton, Sacramento, Chico and Redding. Route 6 connects with San Jose.

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