Redondo Beach via Playa del Rey Line

Redondo Beach via Playa del Rey
Del Rey & Redondo (1915)
Overview
Locale	Greater Los Angeles
Termini	Downtown Los Angeles Redondo Beach
Service
Type	Interurban
System	Pacific Electric
Operator(s)	Pacific Electric
History
Opened	November 9, 1902 (1902-11-09)
Closed	May 12, 1940 (1940-05-12)
Technical
Line length	25.01 mi (40.25 km)
Number of tracks	2
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification	Overhead line, 600 V DC
Route map Legend Hill Street Station Subway Terminal Echo Park Avenue Edendale  J   R   S   N   W   P   9   J   9   W   A  Vermont Avenue  V  Berendo Street siding Western Avenue 3rd Avenue siding Vineyard  P  Sawtelle / Westgate Roberto Hauser Arnaz Barnhart National Boulevard Culver City Air Line Venice Short Line First Street Palms Ellenda Bundy Cypress Grove Alla Venice–Inglewood Motordrome Del Rey Junction Venice–Playa del Rey Holton Hyperion El Segundo Peck's Beach Manhattan Beach Hermosa Beach Redondo via Gardena Redondo Beach Cliffton This diagram: view talk edit

The Redondo Beach via Playa del Rey was an interurban railway route of the Pacific Electric. It operated between the Hill Street Terminal and Cliffton, south of Redondo Beach, through the company's Western Division.

The route ran along the coastline of the Santa Monica Bay uninterrupted from Playa Del Rey to the northern edge of the Palos Verdes Peninsula. Despite the obvious desirability of the route, which connected all of the beachfront communities to one another and to the urban core, it was mostly never replaced with alternative types of transit. Portions of local bus routes run by various local agencies, including Culver CityBus and Beach Cities Transit serve some parts of the former route, but no regular, continuous service exists down the length of the South Bay coastline. The former route is, however, mostly traversable by bike since some of the portion along Culver Boulevard has been converted into a bike trail, and the Marvin Braude Bike Trail roughly parallels the former route and in many places runs on the former right of way.