Villa Park station
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| Location | 349 North Ardmore Ave. Villa Park, Illinois | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°53′47″N 87°58′39″W / 41.8965°N 87.9775°WCoordinates: 41°53′47″N 87°58′39″W / 41.8965°N 87.9775°W | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Village of Villa Park | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 3 | ||||||||||
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| Parking | Yes | ||||||||||
| Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Fare zone | D | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 1908 | ||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1979 | ||||||||||
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| 2018 | 870 (average weekday)[1]  5.1% | ||||||||||
| Rank | 59 out of 236[1] | ||||||||||
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Villa Park is a Metra commuter railroad station in Villa Park, a western suburb of Chicago. It is served by the Union Pacific/West Line and lies 17.8 miles (28.6 km) from the eastern terminus.[2] Trains go east to Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago and as far west as Elburn, Illinois. Travel time to Ogilvie ranges from 43 minutes on local trains to 31 minutes on express trains, with faster times during peak hours. As of 2018, Villa Park is the 59th busiest of the 236 non-downtown stations in the Metra system, with an average of 870 weekday boardings.[1]
The station is on ground level, at N. Ardmore Ave. and W. Terrace St., with parking lots north and south of the tracks. Villa Park's commercial district is centered on Ardmore Ave. and Saint Charles Road, several blocks south of the station. Another Villa Avenue Station, which was built by the Chicago, Aurora, and Elgin Railroad in 1929, has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1986.[3]
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.
- ^ Metra Railfan Tips - Union Pacific/West Line
- ^ DuPage County Listings at the National Register of Historic Places
External links[]
- Metra – Stations – Villa Park station
- Villa Park Historical Society Museum — historical photos
- Station from Ardmore Avenue from Google Maps Street View
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- Metra stations in Illinois
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- Railway stations in DuPage County, Illinois
- Villa Park, Illinois
- 1908 establishments in Illinois
- Railway stations in the United States opened in 1908
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