'{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2023}} {{Short description|Los Angeles Metro Rail station}} {{Infobox station | style = Los Angeles Metro Rail | name = Culver City | symbol_location = losangeles | symbol = E | image = Culver City station platform, September 2023.jpg | image_caption = Culver City station platform | address = 8817 [[Washington Boulevard (Los Angeles)|Washington Boulevard]] | borough = [[Culver City, California]] | coordinates = {{coord|34.0282|-118.3883|display=inline,title}} | owned = [[Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority]] | platform = 1 [[island platform]] | tracks = 2 | connections = {{Unbulleted list | [[Big Blue Bus]] | [[Culver CityBus]] | [[LADOT Commuter Express]] | [[Los Angeles Metro Bus]] }} | structure = Elevated | parking = 586 spaces<ref name="Metro Parking">{{Cite web |title=Metro Parking Lots by Line |url=https://www.metro.net/riding/parking/lotsbyline/ |access-date=November 5, 2021 |publisher=Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority |language=en-US |archive-date=August 10, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810121559/https://www.metro.net/riding/parking/lotsbyline/ |url-status=live }}</ref> | bicycle = [[Bicycle parking station|Metro Bike Hub]], [[Bicycle parking rack|racks]] and [[bicycle locker|lockers]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Secure Bike Parking on Metro |url=https://bikehub.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/20-2070_Secure_Bike_Parking_Master_Map_jp-ENG.pdf |access-date=November 5, 2021 |publisher=Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority |language=en-US |archive-date=September 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906210731/https://bikehub.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/20-2070_Secure_Bike_Parking_Master_Map_jp-ENG.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> | accessible = Yes | status = <!-- Only use when station is non-operational --> | opened = {{Start date and age|1875|10|17}} | closed = | rebuilt = {{Start date and age|2012|06|20}}<ref>{{Cite news |date=June 5, 2012 |title=Two more Expo Line stations to open June 20 |language=en-US |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |url=https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/06/expo-line-culver-city-station-opens.html |access-date=January 10, 2022 |archive-date=January 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220110190007/https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/06/expo-line-culver-city-station-opens.html |url-status=live }}</ref> | former = [[Santa Monica Air Line|Culver Junction]]; [[Los Angeles and Independence Railroad|Ivy]] | services = {{adjacent stations|system1=Los Angeles Metro Rail|line=E|left1=Palms|right1=La Cienega/Jefferson}} | other_services_header = Former services | other_services_collapsible = yes | other_services = {{Adjacent stations|system3=Pacific Electric|line3=Air Line|left3=Palms|right3=Sentous|line4=Venice Short Line|left4=First Street|right4=National Boulevard|line5=Redondo via Playa del Rey|left5=First Street Palms|right5=National Boulevard}} | mapframe = yes | mapframe-zoom = 14 }} '''Culver City station''' is an elevated [[light rail]] station on the [[E Line (Los Angeles Metro)|E Line]] of the [[Los Angeles Metro Rail]] system. The station is located on a dedicated right-of-way alongside Exposition Boulevard — between the intersection of [[Venice Boulevard]] and [[Robertson Boulevard]] on the west and the intersection of [[Washington Boulevard (Los Angeles)|Washington Boulevard]] and National Boulevard on the east. The station is located in the city of [[Culver City, California]], after which the station is named.<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 2012 |title=Exposition Bl/Culver City Connections |url=http://www.metro.net/riding_metro/maps/images/Expo_Bl_Culver_City_Connections.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120901054031/http://www.metro.net/riding_metro/maps/images/Expo_Bl_Culver_City_Connections.pdf |archive-date=September 1, 2012 |access-date=January 8, 2022 |website=[[Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority|Metro]]}}</ref> == Service == === Station layout === {{LACMTA Platform Layout E Line Elevated}} === Hours and frequency === E Line trains run every day between approximately 4:30&nbsp;a.m. and 12:30&nbsp;am. Trains operate every ten minutes during peak hours Monday through Friday, every twelve minutes during the daytime on weekdays and all day on the weekends after approximately 8&nbsp;a.m. (with 15 to 20-minute headways early Saturday and Sunday mornings). Night service is every 20 minutes.<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 12, 2021 |title=Metro E Line schedule |url=https://www.metro.net/riding/schedules/?line=806 |access-date=November 13, 2021 |publisher=[[Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority]] |archive-date=November 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211120213224/https://www.metro.net/riding/schedules/?line=806 |url-status=live }}</ref> === Connections === {{As of|2023|12|10|df=US}}, the following connections are available:<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 10, 2023 |title=E Line Timetable – Connections section |url=https://cdn.beta.metro.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/01154128/804_TT_12-10-23-1.pdf |access-date=December 26, 2023 |publisher=[[Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority]] |page=1}}</ref> * [[Big Blue Bus]] (Santa Monica): [[Big Blue Bus#R12|Rapid 12]] * [[Culver CityBus]]: [[Culver CityBus#1|1]], [[Culver CityBus#7|7]] * [[LADOT Commuter Express]]: {{LADOT route|437}} * [[Los Angeles Metro Bus]]: {{LA Metro route|33}}, {{LA Metro route|617}} Deez nuts == History == A railway stop known as '''La Ballona Station''', along the [[Los Angeles and Independence Railway]] established 1874, was located on or near the site of what came to be known as Ivy Station, Culver Junction and Culver City station.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Record Group 28: Records of the Post Office Department, Series: Reports of Site Locations, California: Los Angeles M - Z (NAID: 68228967) |url=https://catalog.archives.gov/id/68228967?objectPage=4 |access-date=March 11, 2023 |website=catalog.archives.gov |archive-date=March 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230311044209/https://catalog.archives.gov/id/68228967?objectPage=4 |url-status=live }}</ref> La Ballona Station was located at what is now Washington Boulevard, which circa 1883 was known as the "Monte Vista and La Ballona Station Road" and which extended Washington Street west from Los Angeles.<ref>{{Cite news |newspaper=Los Angeles Herald |date=10 May 1883 |page=3 |title=Board of Supervisors |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/los-angeles-herald-board-of-supervisors/120614808/ |access-date=March 11, 2023 |via=Newspapers.com |language=en |archive-date=March 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230311051615/https://www.newspapers.com/image/46527283/ |url-status=live }} {{free access}}</ref> In 1886, the "surveyors of the [[Santa Monica Railroad]] have just crossed the S.P. track at Ballona, just where the county road crossed that track near La Ballona station. The terminus is finally fixed at South Santa Monica, near where the old Juan Bernard wharf is."<ref>{{Cite news |newspaper=Los Angeles Herald |date=14 Mar 1886 |page=1 |title=Railroad Notes |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/los-angeles-herald-railroad-notes/120615067/ |access-date=March 11, 2023 |via=Newspapers.com |language=en |archive-date=March 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230311051614/https://www.newspapers.com/image/41080555/ |url-status=live }} {{free access}}</ref> When the [[Palms Depot]] opened in 1887 it was noted to be between La Ballona Station and Santa Monica.<ref>{{Cite news |newspaper=Los Angeles Herald |date=15 Jan 1887 |page=8 |title=New Railroad Station |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/los-angeles-herald-new-railroad-station/120601998/ |access-date=March 11, 2023 |via=Newspapers.com |language=en |archive-date=March 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230311051615/https://www.newspapers.com/image/41081179/ |url-status=live }} {{free access}}</ref> The name La Ballona Station was still in use as late as 1893;<ref>{{Cite news |newspaper=Los Angeles Herald |date=10 Jan 1893 |page=8 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/los-angeles-herald-lowell-wins-the-go-as/120616249/ |title=Lowell Wins the Go-As-You Please |access-date=March 11, 2023 |via=Newspapers.com |language=en |archive-date=March 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230311054615/https://www.newspapers.com/image/42199534/ |url-status=live }} {{free access}}</ref> the name Ivy Station first appears in print in 1889.<ref>{{Cite news |newspaper=The Los Angeles Times |date=2 Jun 1889 |page=1 |title=Found – in Ivy Station |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-found-cinnamon-co/120616479/ |access-date=March 11, 2023 |via=Newspapers.com |language=en |archive-date=March 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230311055602/https://www.newspapers.com/image/378337828/ |url-status=live }} {{free access}}</ref> [[Los Angeles-Pacific Railroad]] built the [[Venice Short Line]] though the area in 1903.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Masters |first1=Nathan |title=Many L.A. Boulevards Began as Trolley Lines |url=https://www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/many-l-a-boulevards-began-as-trolley-lines |access-date=February 7, 2021 |agency=KCET |date=February 21, 2014 |archive-date=February 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210214062427/https://www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/many-l-a-boulevards-began-as-trolley-lines |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[interurban]] railway was grade-separated from the steam railroad via an underpass. When The LAP began running cars over the Santa Monica Air Line in 1908, the tracks were connected to allow interchanges.<ref>{{cite news |title=Electric Line to Beach Displaces S.P. Railroad |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106453127/ |access-date=July 28, 2022 |newspaper=Los Angeles Evening Express |via=Newspapers.com |date=May 16, 1908 |page=5 |archive-date=September 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220914221557/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106453127/los-angeles-evening-express/ |url-status=live }} {{free access}}</ref> The point was later renamed '''Culver Junction''' to reflect its new role. In 1915 the station briefly hosted the Culver City branch of the Los Angeles County Free Library.<ref>{{Cite web |title=History of the Los Angeles county free library 1912-1927. |url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015034608805?urlappend=%3Bseq=24 |access-date=2023-11-19 |website=HathiTrust |pages=18 |language=en}}</ref> [[File:Culver City depot under construction circa 1923 LAPL Photos 27874 large.jpg|thumb|left|Culver City depot under construction {{circa|1923}}; per the [[Los Angeles Public Library]]'s photo catalog description, the white building to the rear is [[Harry Culver]]'s real estate office (Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection)]] The Venice line closed in September 1950, making it no longer a junction; finally, all passenger service ended on September&nbsp;30, 1953. The name "Culver Junction" remained on maps, referring to the immediate surrounding area. With service restoration along the corridor in June 2012, the new light rail station was named '''Culver City'''. [[Ivy Substation]], a [[traction substation]] building which housed mechanical [[rotary converter]]s used to supply DC current to the line until 1953, is still standing near this station and has been converted into the popular [[The Actors' Gang|Actor's Gang Theater]]. (Train power now comes from a much smaller building beneath the elevated platform.) [[File:HSY- Los Angeles Metro, Culver City, Platform View.jpg|thumb|[[E Line (Los Angeles Metro)]] platform at Culver City station, 2015]] Culver City station served as the initial western terminus of the Expo line from its re-opening on June 20, 2012. It became a through-station with the re-opening of the remainder of the line to Santa Monica on May 20, 2016. == Notable places nearby == [[File:Los Angeles Pacific Company Ivy Park Substation.JPG|left|thumb|[[Ivy Substation]], still-standing former station power building north of platform.]] At the northeast edge of Downtown Culver City, a major retail, entertainment and arts district, the station is within walking distance of several notable places: * [[Helms Bakery]] * [[Ballona Creek Bike Path]] *Hayden Tract *[[Museum of Jurassic Technology]] *[[Kirk Douglas Theater]] *[[Ivy Substation]] (a former power building for this station) *Ivy Station (apartments, retail, a hotel, and the west coast headquarters of [[HBO]])<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://urbanize.la/post/exterior-finishes-unveiled-culver-citys-ivy-station-complex|title=Exterior Finishes Unveiled at Culver City's Ivy Station Complex|last=Sharp|first=Steven|date=April 6, 2020|work=Urbanize LA|language=en|access-date=April 7, 2020|archive-date=April 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200407172809/https://urbanize.la/post/exterior-finishes-unveiled-culver-citys-ivy-station-complex|url-status=live}}</ref> {{Clear left}} == Station artwork == The station's art was created by artist Tom LaDuke. Entitled ''Unknowable Origins'', the installation depicts softly rendered views of Culver City as seen from surrounding hillside viewpoints, with abstracted face shapes of notable people from Culver City appearing in each panel.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Unknowable Origins |url=https://art.metro.net/artworks/unknowable-origins/|url-status=live |access-date=December 7, 2021 |website=[[Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority|Metro]] Art |language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220126185429/https://art.metro.net/artworks/unknowable-origins/ |archive-date=January 26, 2022 }}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} ==External links== {{Commons category-inline}} *Electric Railway Historical Association of Southern California, [http://www.erha.org/timepoints/refsup12ndrev.htm A Chronology of Changes in Rail Passenger Operations of the Pacific Electric Railway Company], accessed January 2008 {{Los Angeles Metro Rail and Busway stations navbox}} {{Culver City, California}} [[Category:E Line (Los Angeles Metro) stations]] [[Category:Buildings and structures in Culver City, California]] [[Category:Railway stations in the United States opened in 2012]] [[Category:2012 establishments in California]] [[Category:Pacific Electric stations]] [[Category:History of Culver City, California]] [[Category:Transportation in Culver City, California]] [[Category:Railway stations in Los Angeles County, California]]'