Ocean and Fairfield / Ocean and Victoria stations

Ocean and Fairfield (inbound) and Ocean and Victoria (outbound) are a pair of one-way light rail stops on the Muni Metro K Ingleside line, located between the Mount Davidson and Ingleside Terrace neighborhoods of San Francisco, California. The stops consist of one side platform each, with the eastbound (outbound) platform located on Ocean Avenue west of the intersection with Victoria Street, and vice versa. They originally opened in 1895 on the United Railroads 12 line; K Ingleside service began in 1919.

Ocean and Fairfield / Ocean and Victoria
An inbound train at Ocean and Victoria in 2018
LocationOcean Avenue at Fairfield Way and Victoria Street
San Francisco, California
Coordinates37.72602°N 122.46425°W / 37.72602; -122.46425
Owned byMuni
Platforms2 side platforms
Connections Muni: 91 Owl, KT Bus, K Owl
History
OpenedDecember 4, 1895
Rebuilt2001-2003
Services
Preceding station Muni Following station
Ocean and Westgate / Ocean and Cerritos
towards SF Zoo
 K Ingleside Ocean and Dorado / Ocean and Jules
towards Balboa Park
Location

History

The private Market Street Railway opened a branch - built in just six days - of its Mission Street line along Ocean Avenue to Victoria Street on December 4, 1895 to serve the new Ingleside Racetrack.[1] The line was extended to the Ingleside House (where Ocean Avenue now meets Junipero Serra Boulevard) shortly thereafter.[2] The 1906 earthquake damaged many cable car and streetcar lines; the URR resumed service on the Ocean Avenue (12) line on May 6, 1906.[3]

On November 25, 1918, the city and the struggling URR signed the "Parkside Agreements", which allowed Muni streetcars to use URR trackage on Junipero Serra Boulevard, Ocean Avenue, and Taraval Street, in exchange for a cash payment and shared maintenance costs.[4]:74 The K Ingleside line was extended south on Junipero Serra Boulevard and east on Ocean to Ocean and Miramar on February 21, 1919.[3] The city purchased the private company (renamed Market Street Railway in 1921) in 1944; route 12 service was removed from Ocean Avenue on April 8, 1945, leaving just the K Ingleside.[3]

The line was closed and replaced by buses from February 2001 to June 7, 2003 for the Ocean Avenue Reconstruction and Improvement Project, a major street repaving and utility replacement project. Muni boarding islands were reconstructed at the stations along Ocean Avenue.[5]

References
  1. Rice, Walter; Echeverria, Emiliano (2002). When Steam Ran on the Streets of San Francisco. Harold E. Cox. p. 66.
  2. Southern Pacific Company (1897). "Guide Map Of The City of San Francisco". H.S. Crocker Co. – via David Rumsey Map Collection.
  3. Stindt, Fred A. (October 1990). San Francisco's Century of Street Cars. pp. 94, 189. ISBN 0961546514.
  4. Perles, Anthony (1981). The People's Railway: The History of the Municipal Railway of San Francisco. Interurban Press. ISBN 0916374424.
  5. "Grand Re-Opening of Ocean Avenue Celebrated" (Press release). San Francisco Municipal Railway. June 20, 2003. Archived from the original on December 5, 2004.

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