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
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Illinois
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The adjacent stations are
Bryn Mawr, located about to the north, and
Argyle, about 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 eastern tracks are temporarily out of service for construction and trains on both the Red and Purple Lines pass Berwyn on the western 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
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. Many of the roads (and thus CTA stations) in the Edgewater neighborhood are named after stations on the former
Pennsylvania Railroad Main Line.
History
The
Northwestern Elevated Railroad
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extended its services north from
Wilson
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to Central Street in Evanston in 1908, but they did not build a station at Berwyn Avenue until the tracks between Wilson and
Howard
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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.
At the time of its opening the station was named ''Edgewater Beach Station''; the name was changed to ''Berwyn'' in the late 1950s, around about the time that
Lake Shore Drive
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was extended from Foster Avenue to Hollywood Avenue destroying the namesake Edgewater beach.
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 by December 2024. The new station will feature wider platforms, better lighting, and be accessible to passengers with disabilities.
Bus connections
CTA
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146 Inner Lake Shore/Michigan Express
Notes and references
Notes
Station closed until further notice
References
External links
Berwyn Station PageCTA official siteBerwyn Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
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CTA Red Line stations
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1916