Harvey (Metra)

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Harvey
Station statistics
Address Park Avenue & 154th Street
Harvey, IL
Coordinates 41°36′31″N 87°38′37″W / 41.6086°N 87.6437°W / 41.6086; -87.6437Coordinates: 41°36′31″N 87°38′37″W / 41.6086°N 87.6437°W / 41.6086; -87.6437
Line(s)
Connections Pace Buses
Platforms 1 Island platform (formerly 2)
Tracks 2
Parking Yes
Bicycle facilities Yes; Bicycle racks
Other information
Electrified Yes
Accessible
Owned by Metra
Fare zone D
Services

Ticket Vending Machines

Preceding station   Metra   Following station
Metra Electric District
Main Line
    Former services    
Illinois Central
toward New Orleans
Main Line
toward St. Louis
St. Louis Chicago
New York Central Railroad
toward Chicago
Chicago Cincinnati
(Big Four Railroad)
Kankakee
toward Cincinnati

Harvey Station is one of two Metra Electric commuter rail stations along the line's Main Branch in Harvey, Illinois. The station is officially located at Park Avenue and 154th Street, and is 20 miles (32 km) away from the northern terminus at Randolph Street Station.[1] In Metra's zone-based fare system, Harvey Metra Electric Station is in zone D.

Compared to most stations along the Metra Electric line, including Harvey's other station at 147th Street, Harvey Station is quite grand in its appearance, at least in the vicinity of its given location. The station is located two blocks from City Hall, and near Pace's Harvey Transportation Center.[2]

Parking is available along Park Avenue and the west side of the tracks between 155th Street and a bridge for a Canadian National Railway line that crosses underneath the Metra Electric Main Branch, as well as the Amtrak line that runs parallel to it, carrying the City of New Orleans, Illini, and Saluki trains. These tracks carried the intercity-trains of the Illinois Central until 1971, and most trains stopped here. It also contains a much larger parking lot on the east side of the tracks surrounded by 155th Street, Commercial Avenue, and 156th Street.

Bus connections

Pace Bus connections are made at the adjacent Harvey Transportation Center

Pace

  • 348 Riverdale Connector
  • 349 South Western
  • 350 Sibley
  • 352 Halsted
  • 354 Harvey-Oak Forest Loop
  • 356 Harvey-Homewood-Tinley Park
  • 364 159th Street
  • 877 South Suburban Oakbrook Limited
  • 890 South Suburbs-UPS Hodgkins

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