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The station has a 9-car-long side platform on the south side, a 10-car-long platform on the north side and two high-level 12-car-long island platforms. [6]: 20 The main station concourse straddles the tracks of the Northeast Corridor, and contains the ticket booth, a passenger waiting area, and shops.
A parking lot is located at the west side of the station off Hope Street. [8] Station parking is controlled by Stamford city government, which owns most of the parking lot. [7] The state owns a much smaller parking area at the south end of the station. [8] The parking lot has landscaping and a "period pedestal clock". [8]
The mainline station, located at Courtland Avenue, was closed in the early 1970s. The station has been unstaffed since January 15, 1972. [6] In 2007, city officials were considering the idea of building a second train station in the area, possibly at the original mainline station site. [7]
On January 30, 2006, four new stations on the North Central Service opened: Belmont Avenue in Franklin Park, Schiller Park, Rosemont, and Washington Street in Grayslake. [5] Service doubled from 10 to 20 trains per day with this change in the timetable, combined with double tracking of large portions of the line and the CN rerouting freight ...
The Heritage Corridor (HC) is a Metra commuter rail line in Chicago, Illinois, and its southwestern suburbs, terminating in Joliet, Illinois.While Metra does not refer to its lines by colors, the Heritage Corridor appears on Metra timetables as "Alton Maroon," after the Alton Railroad, which ran trains on this route. [3]
[7] [9] Commuter rail services along the line started operating into the new Chicago and North Western Terminal (now Ogilvie Transportation Center) in 1911. In 1966, the Chicago and North Western closed the Lake Front Depot and began operating into the new Milwaukee Union Station. This service would ultimately prove to be relatively short lived ...
18th Street station (Illinois) 27th Street station; 47th Street (Kenwood) station; 51st–53rd Street (Hyde Park) station; 55th–56th–57th Street station; 59th Street/University of Chicago station; 63rd Street station (Metra) 67th Street station (Illinois) 75th Street (Grand Crossing) station; 79th Street (Chatham) station; 83rd Street ...
The building of a line from Chicago to the south suburbs ending at Balmoral Park has been discussed as early as 1986. [2] In 2003, Metra officials proposed the SouthEast Service at the insistence of Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. that the south suburbs be included as part of Metra's larger request for federal dollars after they were largely excluded from the proposed STAR Line.