A pedestrian bridge connects the side platform and station building with commercial areas on Shellmound Street to the west.

[4] By the time the lines were under Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) control a decade later, the Montague Street station was gone and the Emerys (later Emery and Emeryvillle) stop had been moved a block south to Yerba Buena Avenue, where the line crossed the California and Nevada Railroad.

Initial electric service to Berkeley mostly used the existing San Pablo Avenue station, with limited stops at Shell Mound, Emery, and B Street (34th Street); non-electric suburban service on the mainline stopped at Shell Mound.

[8] A new station was quickly constructed in nearby Emeryville – close to the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge – on the site of a former cement plant.

However, this required a complicated reverse move along street running tracks to reach the wye at West Oakland.

Amtrak Thruway route 99 buses run between Emeryville station and the Salesforce Transit Center in downtown San Francisco, providing connections for all trains.