Berwyn station (CTA)

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Berwyn
 
5300N
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Chicago 'L' rapid transit station
South end of Berwyn platform.jpg
General information
Location1121 West Berwyn Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60640
Coordinates 41°58′40″N87°39′31″W / 41.977833°N 87.658683°W / 41.977833; -87.658683
Owned by Chicago Transit Authority
Line(s) North Side Main Line
Platforms1 island platform (temporarily out of service)
Tracks4 (two temporarily out of service)
Construction
Structure type Elevated
Bicycle facilitiesYes
AccessibleStarting 2025
Other information
StatusTemporarily closed
History
Opened1916;107 years ago (1916)
Rebuilt1921, 2012, 202125
Previous namesEdgewater Beach
Passengers
2020406,530 [1] Decrease2.svg 59.9%
Rank57 out of 143
Services
Preceding station Chicago "L" Following station
Bryn Mawr
toward Howard
Red Line Argyle
      Purple Line does not stop here
Location
Berwyn station (CTA)

Berwyn is a temporarily closed 'L' station on the CTA's Red Line. It is located at 1121 West Berwyn Avenue in the Edgewater neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. [2] The adjacent stations are Bryn Mawr, located about 38 mile (0.60 km) to the north, and Argyle, about 13 mile (0.54 km) to the south, both still in service and serving as alternate stations. Four tracks pass through the station, but there is only single island platform in the center of the tracks. The two western tracks are temporarily out of service for construction and trains on both the Red and Purple Lines pass Berwyn on the eastern tracks without stopping. When it reopens, it will consist of an island platform with Red Line trains stopping on the inner tracks and Purple Line Express trains bypassing the station on the outer tracks. Berwyn is named for the Berwyn station in the community of the same name, which is west of Philadelphia. Many of the roads (and thus CTA stations) in the Edgewater neighborhood are named after stations on the former Pennsylvania Railroad Main Line. [3]

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History

The Northwestern Elevated Railroad extended its services north from Wilson to Central Street in Evanston in 1908, but they did not build a station at Berwyn Avenue until the tracks between Wilson and Howard were elevated onto an embankment between 1914 and 1922. This new station was built to a design by architect Charles P. Rawson; the date of opening is not known, but a station may have existed at Berwyn by 1916. [2] At the time of its opening the station was named Edgewater Beach Station; the name was changed to Berwyn in the late 1950s, [4] around about the time that Lake Shore Drive was extended from Foster Avenue to Hollywood Avenue destroying the namesake Edgewater beach. [5]

Red & Purple Modernization Project

As part of Phase I of the Red & Purple Modernization Project, the station closed for demolition beginning on May 16, 2021 and a newly constructed station will reopen in 2025. The new station will feature wider platforms, better lighting, and be accessible to passengers with disabilities. [6] [7] [8] [9]

Bus connections

CTA

Notes and references

Notes

    The station is closed for construction and is scheduled to reopen in 2025.

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