Stone Avenue station
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.[2] In Metra's zone-based fare system, Stone Avenue is in zone C. As of 2018, Stone Avenue is the 55th busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 946 weekday boardings.[1] A staffed station building is on the south side of the three tracks.
Location | 701 West Burlington Avenue La Grange, Illinois | ||||||||||||
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Coordinates | 41.8141°N 87.8783°W | ||||||||||||
Owned by | Village of La Grange | ||||||||||||
Line(s) | BNSF Chicago Subdivision | ||||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||
Tracks | 3 | ||||||||||||
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Parking | Yes | ||||||||||||
Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||||
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Fare zone | C | ||||||||||||
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Opened | 1901 | ||||||||||||
Rebuilt | 2010 | ||||||||||||
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2018 | 946 (average weekday)[1] 9.6% | ||||||||||||
Rank | 55 out of 236[1] | ||||||||||||
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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.[3]
The station was built in 1901 by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad according to a Richardsonian Romanesque design by the company's general architect, Walter Theodore Krausch.[4]
References
- "Commuter Rail System Station Boarding/Alighting Count: Summary Results Fall 2018" (PDF). Metra. April 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 May 2019.
- Metra Railfan Tips - BNSF Railway Line
- Wilson, Jeff (1999). Burlington Route Across the Heartland. Kalmback Publishing Company. ISBN 0-89024-337-9.
- The Railway Age. 1901-01-01.
External links
Media related to Stone Avenue (Metra) at Wikimedia Commons
- Metra – Stations – Stone Avenue station
- Image of Eastbound Train @ La Grange/Stone Avenue Station (Metra Railfans)
- Station from Brainard Avenue from Google Maps Street View