Vernon station explained

Vernon
Style:Los Angeles Metro Rail
Symbol Location:losangeles
Symbol:A
Address:4421 Long Beach Avenue
Borough:Los Angeles, California
Coordinates:34.0037°N -118.2432°W
Owned:Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Platform:1 island platform
Tracks:2
Structure:At-grade
Accessible:Yes
Rebuilt:November 2, 2019[1]
Other Services Header:Former services
Other Services Collapsible:yes
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Zoom:14

Vernon station is an at-grade light rail station on the A Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. The station is located in the center median of Long Beach Avenue (the historic route of the Pacific Electric Railway, and shared with the Union Pacific freight railroad's Wilmington Subdivision) at its intersection with Vernon Avenue, in South Los Angeles, NaN1NaN1 from the border with Vernon, California.[2]

Prior to the construction of the A Line, Vernon Avenue was an important junction on the lines of the Pacific Electric. All lines from the Southern District, including the Long Beach, Watts, Whittier and San Pedro lines, stopped at Vernon Avenue, which was also a crossing with the Los Angeles Railway's V line.[3]

Service

Connections

, the following connections are available:[4]

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Pueblo Del Rio, Southeast

Notable places nearby

The station is within walking distance of the following notable places:

Notes and References

  1. News: Lozano . Carlos . November 2, 2019 . Metro rail service between Los Angeles and Long Beach reopens . en-US . . March 4, 2022 . March 19, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220319142530/https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-11-02/metro-rail-los-angeles-long-beach-blue-a-line . live .
  2. Web site: Metro Blue Line Connections . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120225095318/http://www.metro.net/riding_metro/maps/images/blue_all.pdf . February 25, 2012 . January 8, 2022 . Metro.
  3. Web site: Pacific Electric Watts Line. Electric Railway Historical Association of Southern California. 2015-01-01. 2015-09-24. https://web.archive.org/web/20150924001804/http://www.erha.org/peswat.htm. live.
  4. Web site: April 9, 2023 . A Line Timetable – Connections section . April 13, 2023 . Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority . 2.