The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway opened to Richmond in 1900; service ran until 1971, and the station was demolished in the 1990s.

[1] A station was soon built at the west end of Macdonald Avenue next to the Santa Fe rail yard.

[5][6][7] (On July 1, 1938, the Santa Fe reverted to its previous Oakland terminal, with buses to San Francisco using the newly opened Bay Bridge.

[9] The Santa Fe branch to Oakland closed on June 15, 1958, leaving Richmond as the transfer point to buses to San Francisco.

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