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The Sawtelle Line was an
History
The line was constructed in segments by the
When Pacific Electric took over operations, the service went as far as Venice. Cars ran as far as Playa del Rey between May and August 1916. The line was briefly through routed with the Venice Short Line for three months starting in November 1926, creating a loop service. By February 1927, most trips terminated at Santa Monica, with some cars serving the Ocean Park car house.[4] Annual ridership peaked at 2,644,512 trips in 1929.[1]
Service was virtually discontinued after July 7, 1940, as Pacific Electric only ran a single daily car between Vineyard and Beverly Hills to maintain the franchise. Full abandonment occurred on November 18, 1940.[4]
Rails along the line had been removed by 1981.
Route
The Sawtelle Line followed the Venice Short Line as far as Vineyard Junction. At Vineyard Junction, the Sawtelle Line branched northwesterly. Inside the Vineyard grounds, dual tracks ramped upon fill to join a massive grade separation structure that carried the tracks over Pico Boulevard and down on to an unimproved private way in the center of the twin roadways of San Vicente Boulevard.
Continuing northwesterly, in the center of San Vicente Boulevard the dual tracks crossed the major intersections of La Brea, Hauser, and Olympic Boulevards, Fairfax Avenue, as well as Wilshire and La Cienega Boulevards. Then they continued one block west of La Cienega to Sherman Junction (at Le Doix Road), where the Sherman cut-off branched north (in the middle of San Vicente Boulevard) to Sherman (West Hollywood). From Sherman Junction, the Sawtelle Line turned west into private way, in the center of the twin roadways of Burton Way. Running west, the dual tracks crossed Robertson Boulevard, Doheny Drive, and some of the downtown Beverly Hills Streets to reach the Beverly Hills Station (located adjacent to Santa Monica Boulevard near Beverly Drive).
At the Beverly Hills Station, the Sawtelle Line joined the Hollywood–Venice Line, and both lines were identical from that location to their common terminus at Woodward Avenue in Venice.
This line was one of four lines between Downtown and Santa Monica that did not run through
List of major stops
Station | Mile[4][5] | Major connections | Date opened | Date closed | City |
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Hill Street Station | 0 | Venice via Hollywood, Western and Franklin Avenue, Westgate
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1905 | 1955 | Los Angeles |
Vermont Avenue | 2.99 | Venice Short Line, Westgate Los Angeles Railway V | |||
Western Avenue | 3.99 | ||||
Vineyard Junction
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5.56 | Venice Short Line, Westgate Los Angeles Railway P |
1950 | ||
Carthay Center | 7.73 | ||||
Beverly Hills | 10.18 | Venice via Hollywood, Westgate
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1896 | 1954 | Beverly Hills |
Sawtelle | 13.36 | Venice via Hollywood, Westgate
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West Los Angeles (Purdue Avenue) | 13.45 | Westgate | |||
Brentwood Country Club | 15.68 | ||||
Santa Monica | 17.12 | Venice via Hollywood, Westgate
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Santa Monica | ||
Ocean Park (Pier Avenue) | 18.49 | Venice via Hollywood, Westgate
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Venice (Windward Avenue) | 19.33 | Venice via Hollywood, Venice Short Line, Westgate
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1927 | ||
Playa Del Rey | 21.91 | 1916 | 1916 | ||
References
- ^ a b "Santa Monica via Sawtelle Line". Electric Railway Historical Association of Southern California. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
- ISBN 978-1-931112-13-0.
- ^ "Falls and breaks arm". Newspapers.com. Los Angeles Times. May 2, 1908. p. 20. Retrieved July 28, 2022.
- ^ OCLC 6565577.
- ^ "Pacific Electric Time Tables" (PDF). wx4's Dome of Foam. Pacific Electric. September 1, 1934. p. 18. Retrieved September 1, 2021.