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Harvey
General information
Location	Park Avenue & 154th Street Harvey, Illinois
Coordinates	41°36′31″N 87°38′37″W / 41.6086°N 87.6437°W / 41.6086; -87.6437
Owned by	Metra
Line(s)	Metra Electric
Platforms	1 Island platform (formerly 2)
Tracks	2
Connections	Pace Buses
Construction
Parking	Yes
Bicycle facilities	Yes; Bicycle racks
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	D
History
Opened	1856
Rebuilt	1926, 2001
Electrified	Yes
Services
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Harvey is one of two Metra Electric commuter rail stations along the line's Main Branch in Harvey, Illinois. The station is located at Park Avenue and 154th Street, and is 20 miles (32 km) away from the northern terminus at Millennium Station. In Metra's zone-based fare system, Harvey is in zone D.

Compared to most stations along the Metra Electric line, including Harvey's other station at 147th Street, Harvey is quite grand in its appearance, at least in the vicinity of its given location. The station is located two blocks from City Hall, and next to Pace's Harvey Transportation Center.

Parking is available along Park Avenue and the west side of the tracks between 155th Street and a bridge for a Canadian National Railway line that crosses underneath the Metra Electric Main Branch, as well as the Amtrak line that runs parallel to it, carrying the City of New Orleans, Illini, and Saluki trains. These tracks carried the intercity-trains of the Illinois Central until 1971, and most trains stopped here. It also contains a much larger parking lot on the east side of the tracks surrounded by 155th Street, Commercial Avenue, and 156th Street.

Bus connections

Pace

• #348 Harvey/Riverdale/Blue Island
• #349 South Western
• #350 Sibley
• #352 Halsted
• #354 Harvey/Oak Forest Loop
• #356 Harvey/Homewood/Tinley Park
• #364 159th Street
• #877 South Suburban Oakbrook Limited (weekday rush hours only)
• #890 South Suburbs/UPS Hodgkins (Weekday UPS shifts only)

References

1. Metra Railfan Tips - Metra Electric
2. City of Harvey Website - Transportation

External links

• Metra – Stations – Harvey
• Train heading north of Harvey Station (Metra Railfan Photos)
• Main entrance along Park Avenue from Google Maps Street View
• 155th Street entrance from Google Maps Street View

• Metra stations in Illinois
• Stations along Illinois Central Railroad lines
• Harvey, Illinois
• Railway stations in Cook County, Illinois