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{{Short description|Train station in Sunnyvale, California, U.S.}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}}
{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}
{{Infobox station
| name = Lawrence
| style = Caltrain
| image = EMU at Lawrence station 01.jpg
| image_caption = A southbound train departs Lawrence station in June 2025
| address = 137 San Zeno Way
| borough = [[Sunnyvale, California]]
| coordinates = {{coord|37|22|14|N|121|59|46|W|type:railwaystation_region:US-CA|display=title,inline}}
| mapframe = yes
| mapframe-zoom = 14
| owned = [[Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board]] (PCJPB)
| line = PCJPB [[Peninsula Subdivision (California)|Peninsula Subdivision]]<ref name=schematics>{{CA rail schematics|page=13}}</ref>
| connections = {{bus icon}} [[Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority|VTA]]: {{VTA bus route|21}}
| platform = 2 [[side platform]]s
| tracks = 4
| parking = 122 spaces
| bicycle =
| opened =
| closed =
| rebuilt =
| original = [[Southern Pacific Transportation Company|Southern Pacific]]
| accessible = Yes
| zone = 4
| passengers = 949 per weekday<ref>{{cite web |title=2018 Annual Count Key Findings Report |publisher=Caltrain |url=http://www.caltrain.com/Assets/_Marketing/pdf/2018+Annual+Passenger+Counts.pdf |year=2018 |access-date=2018-10-17 |archive-date=2020-05-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200520173552/http://www.caltrain.com/Assets/_Marketing/pdf/2018+Annual+Passenger+Counts.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| pass_year = 2018
| pass_percent = -1.9
| pass_system = Caltrain
| services = {{Adjacent stations|system=Caltrain
|line1=Local|left1=Sunnyvale|right1=Santa Clara
|line2=Limited|left2=Sunnyvale|right2=Santa Clara
|line3=Weekend Local|left3=Sunnyvale|right3=Santa Clara
|line4=Express|nonstop4=yes
}}
| other_services_header = Former services
| other_services_collapsible = yes
| other_services = {{Adjacent stations|system=Caltrain
|line1=L1|left1=Sunnyvale|right1=Santa Clara
|line2=L2|left2=Sunnyvale|right2=Santa Clara
|line3=L3|left3=Sunnyvale|right3=San Jose Diridon or College Park
}}
}}

'''Lawrence station''' is a [[Caltrain]] commuter rail station located in [[Sunnyvale, California]]. The station has four tracks with [[side platform]]s serving the outer tracks.<ref name=schematics />

The original station at the site was established by the [[San Francisco and San Jose Railroad]], which completed the first rail link between San Francisco and San Jose in 1864.<ref name=DAC-640117>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18640117.2.7 |title=Grand Celebration of the Opening of the San Jose Railroad |author= |date=17 January 1864 |newspaper=Daily Alta California |access-date=19 April 2017 |volume=16 |number=5070}}</ref> A station referred to as "Lawrence's" appeared in timetables by August 1866.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://wx4.org/to/foam/maps/1more4/1866-08-01SF%26SJ_PTT-courtesy_SP_PR_Dept1973.jpg |title=San Francisco and San Jose Railroad Timetable, August 1st 1866}}</ref> It was named after Alfred Chester Lawrence, who donated the land and served as the station agent until his death in 1886.<ref>{{cite web |title=City History |publisher=City of Santa Clara |url=https://www.santaclaraca.gov/our-city/about-santa-clara/city-history |year=2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Shueh |first=Sam |title=Silicon Valley |series=Images of America |date=2009 |isbn=978-0-7385-7093-8 |publisher=[[Arcadia Publishing]] |page=84}}</ref>

The line was later acquired by the [[Southern Pacific Transportation Company|Southern Pacific]], which operated Lawrence station until its closure in 1945.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?4,2024773 |title=Passenger Trains > Caltrain's Lawrence Station and More |publisher=Trainorders}}</ref> Caltrain reopened the station in 1982 or 1983.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bayrailalliance.org/files/library/1982schedulecaltrain.pdf |title=Caltrain 1982 Timetable}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bayrailalliance.org/files/library/1983schedulecaltrain.pdf |title=Caltrain 1983 Timetable}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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*[http://www.caltrain.com/stations/lawrencestation.html Caltrain - Lawrence Station]

{{Caltrain}}
{{Bay Area Rail Stations}}

[[Category:Caltrain stations in Santa Clara County, California]]
[[Category:Transportation in Sunnyvale, California]]
[[Category:Former Southern Pacific Railroad stations in California]]

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Lawrence station (Caltrain) - Revision history

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