Melrose Park station (Illinois)

Melrose Park
Melrose Park
Location	1801 West Main Street; Melrose Park, IL 60160
Coordinates	41°53′25″N 87°51′21″W / 41.8903°N 87.8557°WCoordinates: 41°53′25″N 87°51′21″W / 41.8903°N 87.8557°W
Owned by	Union Pacific
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	Pace Buses
Construction
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	C
History
Opened	1956
Passengers
2018	86 (average weekday) 1.1%
Rank	196 out of 236
Services
show Former services

Melrose Park is a Metra commuter railroad station in Melrose Park, a western suburb of Chicago. It is served by the Union Pacific/West Line. Trains go east to Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago and as far west as Elburn, Illinois. Travel time to Ogilvie is 23 to 29 minutes, depending on the train. There are 15 daily inbound trains on weekdays, and five each on Saturday and Sunday. As of 2018, Melrose Park is the 196th busiest of the 236 non-downtown stations in the Metra system, with an average of 86 weekday boardings.^[1]

Melrose Park was originally built by the Chicago and North Western Railway and acquired by Metra. The station is at Main Street and North 18th Avenue, in Melrose Park's business district. Pace suburban buses stop one block to the west, on Broadway Street, and one block to the north, on West Lake Street.

Bus connections[]

Pace

303 Forest Park/Rosemont
309 Lake Street
313 St. Charles Road

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^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "Commuter Rail System Station Boarding/Alighting Count: Summary Results Fall 2018" (PDF). metrarail.com. April 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 May 2019.

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[:0-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "Commuter Rail System Station Boarding/Alighting Count: Summary Results Fall 2018" (PDF). metrarail.com. April 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 May 2019.

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