Robert R. Nolan Transportation Center-Upland Station was one of two intermediate stops on the May 17, 1993 extension of Metrolink service from Montclair out to San Bernardino. The station is located in front of the historic (although I couldn't find any built year information, just pictures) Santa Fe Depot that has black Upland lettering on some of the walls. It currently houses a wine store and some other local business, with no transit uses
The depot is at the corner of 2nd Avenue and A Street. The train platform is on the north side of the single-track line and beginns at the grade-crossing of 2nd Street and runs east. The platform has a series of 5 small canopy structures with white stucco columns holding up Spanish tiled roofs. These are clustered in front of the depot and on the eastern half of the platform.
Parking at the station is paid and costs $4 a day or $20 a month for residents, $30 a month for non-residents, with some lots permit only. The main lot is a small lot closest to the platform just east of the depot between A Street and the railroad tracks, there is one central aisle with angled spaces on each side. The parking lot is interrupted by a Chinese restaurant (at the foot of 4th Avenue that ends at the tracks), before another larger parking lot extends to 6th Avenue. There is a final lot across 2nd Avenue (between A Street and the tracks) that extends to 1st Avenue.
Photos 1-28 taken on February 26, 2012
The locomotive of a stopping train by the easternmost shelter, the platform extends east
Bike boxes in the central entrance area
A small Upland sign across the track from the platform
A platform sign, to Los Angeles or San Bernardino
The main parking lot with cars parked along then platform
Sign for the Upland Lemon Festival
The eastern permit only parking lot, empty on a Sunday
The central parking lot viewed from the sidewalk of A Street
Metrolink Parking sign at an entrance to the eastern parking lot (and main platform entrance)
Looking across to the platform and entrance shelter (closer to the parking lot than the track)
Plaque that the station has been named the Robert R. Nolan Transportation Center
The wheelchair ramp in front of the historic depot
The ornate metalwork on the depot
Metal Upland lettering on the depot
Sign by the depot and main platform entrance for the Robert R. Nolan Transportation Center-Upland Station in a unique font
The entrance to the wine store is from the Metrolink platform
Sign in front of the start of the platform
Sign for Pacific Wine Merchants in the historic depot
Last Updated: 30 April, 2020
All photos are by Jeremiah Cox
All histrocial dates unless otherwise noted come from: Edward J. Simburg, Railroad-Freeway, Agoura, CA: Yerba Seca Publications, 1998
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