Melrose Park station (Illinois)
This article is about a railway station in Illinois. For the station in Melrose Park, Pennsylvania, see Melrose Park (SEPTA station).
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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 | ||||||||||
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| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
| Connections | Pace Buses | ||||||||||
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| Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Fare zone | C | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 1956 | ||||||||||
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| Passengers (2014) | 103 (avg. weekday)[1] | ||||||||||
| Rank | 195 out of 236[2] | ||||||||||
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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.
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
- #303 Forest Park-Rosemont
- #309 Lake Street
- #313 St. Charles Road
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