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Des Plaines is one of two commuter railroad stations on Metra's Union Pacific Northwest Line in Des Plaines, Illinois. The station is located at 1501 Miner Street ( US 14 ), and lies 16.7 miles (26.9 km) from the Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago . [ 2 ]
With an average weekday ridership of 294,600 in 2015, Metra is the fourth-busiest commuter rail system in the United States, only behind New York City metropolitan area systems. [1] [2] The Metra system has a total of 243 active stations spread out on 11 rail lines with 487.5 miles (784.6 km) of tracks.
Five outbound trains terminate at Des Plaines, three at Palatine, three at Barrington, 12 at Crystal Lake, three at McHenry, and 13 at Harvard. Metra operates 34 trains (17 in each direction) on the line on Saturdays. Of these, 10 inbound trains originate from Harvard, five from Crystal Lake, one from Barrington, and one from Arlington Heights ...
Station [20] Connections and notes [b] [18] Chicago: O'Hare ATS Metra: North Central Service (O'Hare Transfer) Pace: 250, 330 Rosemont–Des Plaines: Higgins Pace: 223W, 223E Des Plaines: Lee/Touhy Pace: 221 Oakton Pace: 226 Des Plaines Metra Metra: Union Pacific Northwest. Pace: 208, 209, 226, 230, 234 Des Plaines–Park Ridge: Dee Park Ridge ...
The station in Des Plaines was on Thacker Street and closed in 1965. However, Des Plaines is currently serviced by the Union Pacific Northwest Line . Metra has considered adding weekend service to the North Central Service ever since Saturday service was added to the SouthWest Service, and has also considered operating six trains between ...
230 South Des Plaines: Algonquin/Linneman (Mount Prospect) Rosemont CTA: Weekdays Northwest 234 Wheeling – Des Plaines: Buffalo Grove Park-n-Ride Des Plaines Metra: Weekdays Northwest 240 Dee Road: Golf Mill: Cumberland CTA: Weekdays Northwest 241 Greenwood – Talcott: Golf Mill: Cumberland CTA: Weekday Rush Northwest 250 Dempster Street: O ...
Cumberland station is one of two commuter railroad stations on Metra's Union Pacific Northwest Line in the city of Des Plaines, Illinois. It is officially located at 475 East Northwest Highway , and lies 18.2 miles (29.3 km) from Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago. [2] In Metra's zone-based fare system, Cumberland is in zone 3.
The Union Pacific West Line (UP-W) is a Metra commuter rail line operated by Union Pacific Railroad in Chicago, Illinois and its western suburbs. Metra does not refer to its lines by particular colors, but the timetable accents for the Union Pacific West line are "Kate Shelley Rose" pink, honoring an Iowa woman who saved a Chicago & North Western Railway train from disaster in 1881.