River Forest station
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 River Forest, Illinois Metra Station | |||||||||||
| Location | 8001 W. Central Street River Forest, IL 60305 | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°53′13″N 87°49′30″W / 41.8870°N 87.8249°WCoordinates: 41°53′13″N 87°49′30″W / 41.8870°N 87.8249°W | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Union Pacific | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side platform, 1 island platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 3 | ||||||||||
| Connections | Pace | ||||||||||
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| Fare zone | B | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 1915 | ||||||||||
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| 2018 | 448 (average weekday)[1]  2.3% | ||||||||||
| Rank | 107 out of 236[1] | ||||||||||
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River Forest is a Metra commuter railroad station in River Forest, a western suburb of Chicago, on 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 20 to 24 minutes. As of 2018, River Forest is the 107th busiest of the 236 non-downtown stations in the Metra system, with an average of 448 weekday boardings.[1]
The station is at Central Avenue and Thatcher Avenue. The surrounding neighborhood is mostly characterized by single-family homes, baseball fields and tennis courts. Pace suburban buses stop one block to the north on Lake Street. To the east is an overpass that carries the Canadian National Railway's Waukesha Subdivision into Forest Park where the line rechristens itself to the CSX Altenheim Subdivision (B&OCT).
The station building was originally built in 1915[citation needed] by the Chicago and North Western Railway and is also the River Forest Park District headquarters.
The station is to undergo renovations in 2011. The platform will be rebuilt along with the stairways.[2]
Bus connections[]
- 309 Lake Street
- 313 St. Charles Road
References[]
- ^ 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 July 2019.
- ^ Richard Wronski (December 7, 2009). "Metra on track to rehab and rebuild dozens of stations". Chicago Tribune.
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