Хронология: Сан-Хосе

5 марта 1910 г.

Service on the Peninsular Railway between Cupertino and Meridian corners begins service, trains run from San Jose to Palo Alto.

30 июня 1909 г.

'San Jose and Los Gatos Interurban Railway Company and the Santa Clara Interurban Railway (are) formally consolidated with the Peninsular Railroad'
'The last timetable under the name (San Jose and Los Gatos Interurban Railway Company) was published in the Los Gatos Mail on March 21, 1912, nearly three years after the company ceased to exist'
https://www.santacruztrains.com/2021/07/...os.html

Not much is known about the San Jose and Santa Clara Railway, but judging by various maps it seems to have been owned by the Peninsular Railway and the service entirely leased to San Jose Railroads as tram route 5. It is unclear if the tracks were ever owned by San Jose Railroads. according to this website https://web.archive.org/web/201602041959...te.html the santa clara interurban railroad owned the local trackage in palo alto. Name changed to Santa Clara Interurban Railway

1 июня 1909 г.

Stanford University and the Southern Pacific Railway agree to lease a campus right of way.

The peninsular interurban soon runs electric cars from palo alto station to the stanford oval along Galvez street and Serra street

Апрель 1909 г.

One track (the west one) of the Los Altos branch is electrified (Tracks, Tires, and wires by Charles McCaleb). Given the 1915 map
https://rodsinks.com/images/1915map.png

it seems that this may have been done from Mayfield to Congress junction, unclear though ?

The peninsular railway operates service on the line before the stevens creek service is open. It pays to double track the stevens creek line from Meridian corners to Monta Vista, in a double-track right of way south of Stevens Creek road

5 ноября 1907 г.

The Los Altos branch (mayfield cut off) opens service, with the Peninsular railroad leasing its unelectrified tracks to a few steam trains along the whole line, which are running Southern Pacific trains. A map from 1915 indicates that the double track layout continued to Congress Junction (likely with one electrified track and one unelectrified track, see the 1909 april chronology), and the section between Congress Junction and Vasona Junction was only a single track, definitely unelectrified.
https://www.santacruztrains.com/2021/07/...os.html
^according to this website, the focus turned to double tracking parts of the interurban network. This indicates that the Bascome local service, using double tracks from today's bascom avenue to the old east/west split trackage starting at meridian along park and san carlos began soon after, maybe 1907 or 1908? a section south of san carlos street was reserved for double track exclusive right of way between Bascom and San Carlos, and Meridian and San Carlos. At Bascom and san carlos it turned into a one track exclusive right of way on the north side of san carlos street. Unclear when the Naglee local service opened. It seems to have been opened in sections, only half completed in 1915.
https://rodsinks.com/images/1915map.png

Июнь 1906 г.

June 1906 Peninsular Railway begins construction on the Mayfield cutoff. Two tracks are laid, one for steam trains of the Southern Pacific Railroad (who at the same time rebuilt the train line to santa cruz with standard gauge tracks, it was recently destroyed in the San Francisco earthquake of 1906), and one for electric interurbans. The construction was "covert" because, officially the plan was that both tracks were for interurban trains.

https://www.santacruztrains.com/2021/07/...os.html

18 апреля 1906 г.

1906 San Francisco Earthquake damages many tram lines and train lines in and around San Jose. The plans for the Los Altos branch are revised, with steam trains that run from a new standard gauge line to Santa Cruz. Within the city limits, all the tram lines are rebuilt to the same standard gauge and trolley wire. The first street line is initially rebuilt as the original narrow gauge but Southern Pacific soon acquires San Jose Railroads and (finances?) the reconstruction to standard gauge in 1909. The outlying parts of the first street line (both narrow gauge) are never rebuilt after the earthquake due to low ridership and no money, these are on hobson street and on Monterey Road south of Alma avenue. They are converted to buses.

1906 г.

Santa Clara Interurban Railroad is formed. History unknown.

https://web.archive.org/web/201602041959...te.html

21 декабря 1905 г.

December 21, 1905 Peninsular Railway Company is founded as a subsidiary of the Southern Pacific Railroad, with the official plan to build a line from Palo Alto to San Jose via Los Altos. The real plan is to acquire the San Jose Los Gatos Interurban Company in the process.

23 января 1905 г.

San Jose city council votes in favor of the interurban line and grants access along several city streets. Service between Campbell and Downtown San Jose via Willow Glen opens by July 1905.

The company's carbarn was located at the corner of Sunol and San Carlos Streets, on the Saratoga line. Cars that left San José at the hour went to Saratoga first, while cars that left on the half hour went to Campbell first. The interurban shared a short stretch of narrow-gauge track with the Almaden Branch of the South Pacific Coast Railway, a Southern Pacific subsidiary, between Bascom Avenue and Winchester Boulevard.

https://www.santacruztrains.com/2021/07/...os.html

1905 г.

San Jose & Santa Clara County Railway — formed 1905 as merger of San Jose & Santa Clara Railway and Alum Rock Railway Co. Merged 1912 into San Jose Railroads.

https://web.archive.org/web/201705101338...is.html

24 ноября 1904 г.

"Interurban cars were running to Campbell from Los Gatos by November 24."

https://www.santacruztrains.com/2021/07/...os.html

19 марта 1904 г.

"The initial interurban network opened for regularly scheduled service on March 19, 1904. The time to Los Gatos from San José via Saratoga was thirty minutes(?)." This includes the Congress Springs branch
https://www.santacruztrains.com/2021/07/...os.html

6 января 1903 г.

Ground is broken at meridian corners on the San Jose-Saratoga-Los Gatos interurban electric railway. "The first stock of 70lbs. rails arrived in mid-February."
https://www.santacruztrains.com/2021/07/...os.html

1896 г.

Alum Rock Railway Co. — opened 1896, merged 1905 into San Jose & Santa Clara County Railway.

1894 г.

"San Jose Railroads — formed 1894 as reorganization of People's Horse Railroad Co."

https://web.archive.org/web/201705101338...is.html

1879 г.

People's Horse Railroad Co. — formed 1879 to acquire control of several horse railroads, reorganized 1894 as San Jose Railroads.

https://web.archive.org/web/201705101338...is.html

1877 г.

Market Street & Willow Glen Railroad — opened 1877, controlled 1882 by People's Horse Railroad Co.

https://web.archive.org/web/201705101338...is.html

1877 г.

South East Side Horse Railroad Co. — opened 1877, merged 1877 into North Side Horse Railroad Co.

1875 г.

North Side Horse Railroad Co. — opened 1875, controlled 1882 by People's Horse Railroad Co.

1872 г.

First Street Railroad — opened 1872, controlled 1881 by People's Horse Railroad Co.

1868 г.

San Jose & Santa Clara Railway — the original horsetram operator in San Jose.

opened 1868, merged 1905 into San Jose & Santa Clara County Railway.

https://web.archive.org/web/201705101338...is.html

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