Jurupa Valley/Pedley is the one intermediate stop in Riverside County on the Riverside County Line that is exclusively served by the Riverside Line. The station is overbuilt for the limited service it receives today. Riverside Line was originally envisioned in the early 1990s to be the main line from Riverside into Los Angeles but due to a lack of decent negotiations with the Union Pacific Railroad for track access, Riverside County instead improved the BNSF-Transcon (todays 91 Line) with the Riverside Line always operating roughly rush hour only service (with one PM reverse peak trip) and only 11 total one-way trips as of 2024.
The station consists of two platforms along a two-track line. This track merges to become one track just south of the station. The platforms are in a configuration where Track 1 has the main platform with a grade-crossing over track 1 at the northern (LA-bound) end of the station over to Track 2 which is completely exposed to the elements except for its green lampposts. These lampposts are in a slightly different style (more circular) compared to the lampposts on Track 1, clearly showing that this platform was built later. When I visited in 2024, the track 2 platform was clearly not being used in normal service with a chain saying No Trespassing before the pedestrian grade-crossing and the movable gate to the platform beyond the grade-crossing closed off.
The station’s main platform leads out to a bus loop that is perpendicular to the train tracks along the northern end of the platform. The loop has about 4 sawtooth bus bays but only one active bus stop serving the quite infrequent Riverside Transit Agency Route 21. The rest of the platform is along multiple sections of parking lots including ADA spaces that run up right to bollards along the platform.
The passenger amenities on track 1 consist of 8 canopy structures. 6 are designed to primarily service waiting passengers for trains and are of a green circular design. There are two larger canopies held up by concrete pillars at each end of the platform. One of these is between the main passenger drop off curb (although this section of the parking lot was coned off with the gate closed off to its entrance) and ADA parking spaces, and the other is at the northern end of the platform (where the stations only TVMs are) between the northern end of the parking lot and the station’s bus loop. These have decorative signs that say Jurupa Valley Pedley next to a wagon wheel.
In the middle of the parking lot is a decorative brown water tower with Jurupa Valley Pedley written on it in a decorative font. The top of the water tower has a latter up to it but has nothing inside it.
All access to the station is from the east via Pedley Road specifically by walking along the bus loop or parking lots from the platforms. It appears that there should be access from the southernmost parking lot (that was closed off by its own special gate) down to the underpass of Limonite Avenue (that crosses under the tracks and Van Buren Blvd which is across from the station platforms) but pedestrians wanting to access this major street (with a large strip mall on the opposite side of the tracks) must go around the parking lot and follow the sidewalk along the street down the grade to the underpass. Pedestrians wanting to safely walk north from the station are out of luck, the sidewalk connects to the northern side of the bus loop but then ends.
The parking lot has two entrances with gates that are closed off on nights and weekends when the station is closed. When I visited the southern one was closed during service hours with pedestrians wanting to access the station needing to climb through the barricades, which was surprisingly difficult or walking around to the northern entrance which was the only one open. Cones prevented cars from accessing the southern half of the parking lot. I briefly talked to the security guard on patrol who told me it was okay to exit the station by climbing through.
Photos 1: August 4, 2023; 2-80: February 23, 2024;
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