Culver City station

E Line trains run every day between approximately 4:30 a.m. and 12:30 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 a.m. (with 15 to 20-minute headways early Saturday and Sunday mornings). Night service is every 20 minutes.{{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 }}

{{As of|2024|12|15|df=us}}, the following connections are available:{{Cite web |date=December 15, 2024 |title=E Line Timetable – Connections section |url=https://cdn.beta.metro.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/12183221/804_TT_12-15-24.pdf |access-date=January 13, 2025 |publisher=Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority |page=1}}{{Cite web |date=December 15, 2024 |title=Little Blue Book |url=https://www.bigbluebus.com/Routes-and-Schedules/PdfHandler.ashx/little-blue-book.pdf |access-date=January 13, 2025 |publisher=Big Blue Bus (Santa Monica)}}

• Big Blue Bus (Santa Monica): Rapid 12
• Culver CityBus: 1, 1C1, 7
• LADOT Commuter Express: {{LADOT route|437}}
• Los Angeles Metro Bus: {{LA Metro route|33}}, {{LA Metro route|617}}

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.{{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 }} 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.{{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}} 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."{{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}} When the Palms Depot opened in 1887 it was noted to be between La Ballona Station and Santa Monica.{{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}} The name La Ballona Station was still in use as late as 1893;{{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}} the name Ivy Station first appears in print in 1889.{{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}}

Los Angeles-Pacific Railroad built the Venice Short Line though the area in 1903.{{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 }} 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.{{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}} 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.{{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}}

File:Culver City depot under construction circa 1923 LAPL Photos 27874 large.jpg'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 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 converters used to supply DC current to the line until 1953, is still standing near this station and has been converted into the popular 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 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.

File:Los Angeles Pacific Company Ivy Park Substation.JPG, 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){{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}}

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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.{{Cite web |title=Unknowable Origins |url=https://art.metro.net/artworks/unknowable-origins/|url-status=live |access-date=December 7, 2021 |website=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 }}

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• 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

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