BART and Caltrain are working together to better serve the region with continued schedule coordination to support transfers between systems at Millbrae Station. Schedules were built to provide transfer wait times that are convenient for riders but also flexible enough to avoid missing connections or a just missed connection if one or both system is experiencing a small delay.
Both agencies have partnered to publish a helpful timetable showing the wait times of each connecting train. The timetable is also posted at the Millbrae station.
The timetable highlights trips with the most convenient transfer times.
An ideal scheduled transfer is 5-19 minutes as it allows for both systems to be off schedule a bit but still provide a reliable connection. If trains were scheduled with less than a 5-minute wait, delays would frequently break the transfer and result in a longer wait.
Transfers at Millbrae don’t always line up perfectly because Caltrain has four trains per peak hour and two trains per off-peak hour/weekends. While BART has three trains per hour at all times. Both systems are also limited in flexibility due to key system timing points elsewhere.
Transfer timetable effective September 21, 2024*
*BART's schedule will change on January 13, 2025, scroll down for that timetable.
Transfer timetable effective January 13, 2025
BART's schedule is changing on January 13, 2025, and Caltrain's schedule is changing on January 27, 2025. This timetable below is effective through January 26, 2025.
View a PDF of the Transfer Timetable effective January 13, 2025-January 26, 2025.
