Monrovia station

It is located at the intersection of Duarte Road and Myrtle Avenue in Monrovia, California, after which the station is named.

This station opened on March 5, 2016, as part of Phase 2A of the Gold Line Foothill Extension Project.

[3][5] The Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad built the first train tracks and station in Monrovia in 1887.

Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad was sold on May 20, 1887 into the California Central Railway.

[8] The 1926 station replaced a wooden depot built on the site in 1886 by the original Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad.

The Santa Fe line served the San Gabriel Valley until 1994, when the 1994 Northridge earthquake weakened the bridge in Arcadia.

It is used two times in the 1966 movie The Trouble with Angels, both at the start and the ending in which the girls leave St. Francis Academy.

The Monrovia station in 1884 with a streetcar pulled by a mule on Myrtle Avenue in Monrovia, California. The Streetcar was sponsored by Cronenweit Jewelers which has a store in Monrovia and Azusa. The mule would pull the rail streetcar up hill to downtown and then be loaded on trailer and coast down to the station
1926 Monrovia train station, immediately east of the Gold Line stop