User:Lost on Belmont/Halsted Street station (Heritage Corridor)
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| Location | Halsted Street and Archer Avenue Chicago, Illinois | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°50′53″N 87°38′47″W / 41.8480°N 87.6463°W | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | CN Freeport Subdivision | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Embankment | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1902 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Closed | 1984[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Halsted Street was a station on Metra's Heritage Corridor line in the Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago. It opened in 1902, on the Alton Railroad, replacing the 23rd Street station to the east.[2] It also hosted Illinois Central West Line commuter trains until 1931. The Regional Transportation Authority closed the station in 1984, along with neighboring Brighton Park and eleven other stations in the system, due to low ridership.[3]
The area is currently served by the Halsted station on the CTA Orange Line, which is adjacent to the site of Metra’s Halsted Street station.
References[edit]
- ^ Ridership Trends - Annual Report 2017 (PDF) (Report). Metra Division of Strategic Capital Planning. February 2018. p. 32. Retrieved December 2, 2018.
- ^ Vandervoort, Bill. "Chicago's Lost Stations: Chicago & Alton/Gulf Mobile & Ohio". Chicago Transit & Railfan. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
- ^ "RTA closing 13 rail stations". Chicago Tribune. March 9, 1984. p. 51. Retrieved May 15, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
