The proposed Downtown Rail Extension, if accomplished, would connect Caltrain and the California High-Speed Rail venture to BART in San Francisco correct by way of an underground pedestrian walkway between Caltrain platforms on the Salesforce Transit Center and BART's Embarcadero station. If the aforementioned Downtown Rail Extension is completed, the underground walkway between the Salesforce Transit Center and Embarcadero station would additionally join Caltrain to Muni Metro's F Market & Wharves, J Church, K Ingleside, and M Ocean View, as well as offering a second connection to the N Judah and linking Caltrain with the California avenue cable automobile line. In August 2005, as part of its Vasona gentle rail project, VTA mild rail established its third transfer level with Caltrain at San Jose's central practice station Diridon. Along with many bus connections, VTA mild rail service has two different Caltrain transfer points at San Jose's Tamien and at Mountain View. Resulting from demand, in 2011, the remaining gallery sets modified a passenger trailer to take bicycles, giving two bike vehicles to all consists, increasing capability on all gallery consists to eighty bicycles per prepare. Although the Baby Bullet runs initially used 5-automotive Bombardier consists, many of the Baby Bullet runs returned to 5-automotive gallery sets attributable to their superior bicycle capacity, since demand for bicycle car access was high.

With the acquisition of Bombardier automobiles from Metrolink, Caltrain announced in January 2015 that roughly half of the extra ex-Metrolink automobiles will probably be converted to bike cars with capacity for 24 bikes, so some trains working Bombardier cars will likely be six-automobile consists, of which three shall be bike automobiles. Caltrain passengers can connect with San Jose International Airport via VTA bus No. 60 at the Santa Clara Transit Center. Shuttle connections by way of the Stanford Marguerite Shuttle are available to Stanford University at the Palo Alto and California Avenue stations and San Jose State University at the San Jose station. The long run San Jose BART extension would additionally introduce connecting BART service at Diridon station and Santa Clara station. Since Caltrain does not run in the East Bay, connections to Oakland International Airport must make the most of BART's Oakland Airport connector at Coliseum station, itself reachable by boarding a pink line practice at Millbrae and subsequently transferring to a blue or inexperienced line train between Daly City and West Oakland, or by transferring to VTA gentle rail's orange line at Mountain View and transferring to green or orange line BART providers at Milpitas.

Caltrain passengers could switch to BART or SamTrans on the Millbrae Intermodal Station for journey to San Francisco International Airport (SFO). Prior to the opening of the airport extension in 2003 a free shuttle bus operated between Millbrae and the airport. Prior to 2016, both Bombardier and gallery trains used five-car consists. Official bike capability for six-automobile Bombardier consists is 72 (24 bikes × 3 automobiles), comparable to the 80-bike capability of five-automotive gallery consists (forty bikes × 2 cars). The Baby Bullets, favored by many cyclists, often use lower bike-capability Bombardier automobiles and cyclists might should look ahead to slower trains with larger-capacity gallery cars, or seek alternate transportation. Gallery cars modified for bicycle service removed seats from the decrease level within the north half of the automobile, leading to area to hold 32 bicycles per automobile. To offer an alternative to bringing bicycles on board the trains, Caltrain has installed bicycle lockers at most stations, and constructed a new bicycle station on the San Francisco station. Caltrain was certainly one of the primary commuter rail companies to add bicycle capability to its trains, inaugurating bicycle service in 1992 by permitting 4 bikes on sure trains. Cyclists are required to tie their bicycle to the rack with the bungee cord offered, and should be racked so they don't protrude into the aisle.

Each rack can accommodate four bicycles. Bicycles should be single-rider, with a maximum of 80 inches (2,000 mm) in size, and tandem or three-wheel bikes aren't allowed. Because the bikes are stacked together in opposition to the racks, most riders place a vacation spot tag, out there from a conductor, on their bicycles to optimize placement and minimize shuffling. Nearly all stations have racks and/or קזינו ברומניהlockers accessible to park bicycles. The preliminary pilot program launched in 1992 allowed as much as 4 bikes per train for off-peak service, with bicycles were carried within the cab automobile (northernmost car). However, in early 2009 Caltrain announced that it would be expanding bicycle capacity by 8 spots by removing some seats within the bike automobiles, bringing bike capacity to forty bikes on gallery vehicles and 24 bikes on Bombardier cars. The variation on bicycle capability between trainsets has generated criticisms from the bicycling community, as cyclists may be denied boarding when a practice reaches its bicycle capacity. Vol. 57, no. 740. May 20, 1882. p.