[2] From 1876 to about 1892, Berkeley Station included a small wooden depot located close to Center and Shattuck.

In 1906, construction began on a much larger brick and stone depot designed by the SP's architect Daniel J. Patterson which opened in 1908.

The original design which included a fountain was scaled back somewhat due to the costs incurred by the railroad as a result of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.

[3] In 1911, at the urging of the community backed up by a ruling by the California State Railroad Commission, the Southern Pacific replaced its small wooden depot at Delaware Street in West Berkeley which, although it lay along the existing mainline, was too small, and most mainline trains did not observe it as a scheduled stop.

The Southern Pacific scheduled it as a regular stop for its mainline trains, and thus, Berkeley Station lost its primacy.

The depot was demolished in August 1938, its function replaced by a small ticket office in a commercial building which rose in its place.