Stone Avenue station

Stone Avenue

Looking towards Union Station
Location 701 West Burlington Avenue
La Grange, Illinois
Coordinates 41°48′51″N 87°52′42″W / 41.8141°N 87.8783°W / 41.8141; -87.8783Coordinates: 41°48′51″N 87°52′42″W / 41.8141°N 87.8783°W / 41.8141; -87.8783
Owned by Village of La Grange
Line(s)
  BNSF Railway
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 3
Construction
Parking Yes
Disabled access Yes
Other information
Fare zone C
History
Opened 1901
Rebuilt 2010
Traffic
Passengers (2014) 1,026 (avg. weekday)[1]
Rank 51 out of 236[2]
Services
Preceding station   Metra   Following station
toward Aurora
BNSF Railway

Stone Avenue (also known as La Grange-Stone Avenue) is a station on Metra's BNSF Railway Line in La Grange, Illinois. The station is 14.1 miles (22.7 km) from Union Station, the east end of the line.[3] In Metra's zone-based fare system, Stone Avenue is in zone C. A staffed station building is on the south side of the three tracks.

Like the other La Grange Metra station (La Grange Road), La Grange-Stone Avenue is between West Burlington and West Hillgrove Avenues. Stone Avenue, the road for which the station is named, is actually a minor street which terminates at West Burlington Avenue in front of the station, only to begin again at a dead end street south of Bell Avenue. The closest major street to the station is Brainard Avenue. It is .4 miles (0.64 km) from the main La Grange station.[4]

The station was built about 1901 by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad according to a design by the company's general architect, Walter Theodore Krausch.[5]

References

  1. ↑ http://metrarail.com/content/dam/metra/documents/Planning/2014Count_Summary10.pdf
  2. ↑ http://metrarail.com/content/dam/metra/documents/Planning/2014Count_Summary10.pdf
  3. ↑ Metra Railfan Tips - BNSF Railway Line
  4. ↑ Wilson, Jeff (1999). Burlington Route Across the Heartland. Kalmback Publishing Company. ISBN 0-89024-337-9.
  5. ↑ The Railway Age. 1901-01-01.

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