Riverside – Downtown station

The Joseph Tavaglione Riverside – Downtown Station is a train station in Riverside, California, United States that opened in 1993. It is served by one Amtrak intercity rail line and three Metrolink commuter rail lines, as well as Riverside Transit Agency buses and Amtrak Thruway and Megabus coach service. The station is owned by the Riverside County Transportation Commission, and is referred to as Riverside by Amtrak and as Riverside – Downtown by Metrolink.HistoryThe current station opened on June 14, 1993, returning rail service to Riverside following the closure of the Santa Fe depot in 1984. The original depot, built in 1927, still stands a few blocks north of the current station. The original depot was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. The Southwest Chief added a stop in Riverside in April 2002, after 18 years of not stopping at Riverside.In December 2012, the station was renamed after Joseph Tavaglione, a local businessman and chair of the California Transportation Commission.