Bryn Mawr (CTA)

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Bryn Mawr

Coordinates:	5600 N, 1200 W
Lines:	Red
Platforms:	1 island platform
Opened:	1908 (rebuilt 1921)
2006 passenger entrances:	1,449,597 7%

Bryn Mawr is an 'L' station on the CTA's Red Line. It is an elevated station located at 1119 West Bryn Mawr Avenue (directional coordinates 5600 north, 1200 west) in the Bryn Mawr Historic District of the Edgewater neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The adjacent stations are Thorndale, located about ½ mile to the north, and Berwyn, about ⅜ mile to the south. Four tracks pass through the station, but there is only single island platform in the center of the tracks; Purple Line weekday peak time express services use the outside tracks but do not stop. The station is also at the eastern terminus of the CTA #84 (Peterson) bus route.

[edit] History

A depot on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Evanston route was constructed at Bryn Mawr in about 1886^[1]. When the Northwestern Elevated Railroad was extended north from Wilson in 1908, taking over from Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, they opened a station at Bryn Mawr called Edgewater Station. This station was rebuilt to a design by architect Charles P. Rawson when the tracks between Wilson and Howard were elevated onto an embankment in 1921—the name was changed to Bryn Mawr soon after^[2]. The station was extensively renovated in 1974, and an escalator added.