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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 54 train stations
Best train stations in Los Angeles
The 10 most notable train stations in Los Angeles, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Metro Green Line
11508 Long Beach Blvd
87 m from Lynwood Pacific Electric Railway Depot, rail
listed by Foursquare Open Source Places and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.409, percentile 100 of 54
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2
Metro Expo Line - Expo/Crenshaw Station Park & Ride
3500 Crenshaw Blvd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.275, percentile 98.11 of 54
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3
Metro Rail - Del Amo Station (A)
20220 S Santa Fe Ave
192 m from Del Amo, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.275, percentile 96.23 of 54
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4
Farmdale station
4420 Exposition Blvd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.275, percentile 94.34 of 54
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5
Metro Expo Line - La Cienega Jefferson Station
5664 W Jefferson Blvd
100 m from La Cienega/Jefferson, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.261, percentile 92.45 of 54
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6
Metrolink
800 N Alameda St
53 m from Los Angeles Union Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.259, percentile 90.57 of 54
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7
Glendale
400 W Cerritos Ave
12 m from Atwater Tract Office, rail
listed by BrightQuery and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.142, percentile 88.68 of 54
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8
Expo Park/USC station
661 Exposition Blvd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.126, percentile 86.79 of 54
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9
Imperial/Wilmington Green line/Blue line transfer point
11611 Willowbrook Ave
listed by Foursquare Open Source Places and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.105, percentile 84.91 of 54
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10
Commerce Station
6433 E 26th St
44 m from Commerce station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.105, percentile 83.02 of 54
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).