Bellwood station (Metra)
Bellwood is a Metra commuter railroad station in Bellwood, 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 26 to 33 minutes, depending on the train. Two tracks are used for Metra trains while one to the north is used for freight. As of 2018, Bellwood is the 173rd busiest of the 236 non-downtown stations in the Metra system, with an average of 145 weekday boardings.[1]
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| Location | 105 Frederick Avenue Bellwood, IL | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41.8915°N 87.8826°W | ||||||||||||
| Owned by | Union Pacific | ||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 Side platform 1 Island platform | ||||||||||||
| Tracks | 3 (formerly 2) | ||||||||||||
| Connections | Pace Buses | ||||||||||||
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| Parking | yes | ||||||||||||
| Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | C | ||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1872 | ||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1953, 2013 | ||||||||||||
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| Passengers (2018) | 145 (average weekday)[1]  | ||||||||||||
| Rank | 173 out of 236[1] | ||||||||||||
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The station is at Frederick Avenue and Erie Street. To the south there is a parking lot and a residential neighborhood of single-family homes. A large freight railroad yard is north of the station. Immediately to the west there is a highway overpass that carries Mannheim Road over the freight yard. Pace suburban buses stop on Mannheim Road and on St. Charles Road, one block to the south of the station. To the east of the station is the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad bridge over the UP-W line that Union Pacific trains cross over to go into Proviso Yard.
References
- "Commuter Rail System Station Boarding/Alighting Count: Summary Results Fall 2018" (PDF). metrarail.com. April 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 May 2019.