Bryn Mawr station (CTA)

Bryn Mawr
 
5600N
1200W
Chicago 'L' rapid transit station
Southbound only temporary platform in place until 2025
General information
Location1119 West Bryn Mawr Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60660
Coordinates41°59′01″N 87°39′32″W / 41.983572°N 87.658862°W / 41.983572; -87.658862
Owned byChicago Transit Authority
Line(s)North Side Main Line
Platforms1 island platform (temporarily one island platform with one side unused and one temporary side platform)
Tracks4 (two temporarily out of service)
Construction
Structure typeElevated
Bicycle facilitiesYes
AccessibleStarting 2025
History
OpenedMay 16, 1908; 116 years ago (1908-05-16)
Rebuilt1921, 1974, 2021–25
Previous namesEdgewater
Passengers
2022634,762[1]Increase 22.6%
Services
Preceding station Chicago "L" Following station
Thorndale
One-way operation
Red Line Argyle
Berwyn
Temporarily closed
     Purple Line does not stop here
Former services
Preceding station Milwaukee Road Following station
North Edgewater Chicago – Evanston Argyle Park
towards Chicago
Location
Map

Bryn Mawr is an 'L' station on the CTA's Red Line. It is located at 1119 West Bryn Mawr Avenue in the Bryn Mawr Historic District of the Edgewater neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The adjacent stations are Thorndale, located about one half mile to the north, and Berwyn (temporarily closed), about three eighths of a mile to the south. Four tracks pass through the station, but the two western tracks are currently out of service for reconstruction. There is an island platform in the center of the tracks which currently only serves southbound trains; Purple Line weekday rush hour express service pass through the station on the same tracks used by the Red Line but do not stop. The name "Bryn Mawr" comes from the SEPTA Regional Rail (and former Pennsylvania Railroad Main Line) station located northwest of Philadelphia in the community of the same name. The name came to the area in the 1880s by Edgewater developer John Lewis Cochran,[2] and is Welsh for "Big Hill."

  1. ^ "Annual Ridership Report – Calendar Year 2022" (PDF). Chicago Transit Authority, Ridership Analysis and Reporting. February 2, 2023. Retrieved June 9, 2023.
  2. ^ "Cochran's Third Addition to Edgewater". Edgewater Historical Society. Retrieved 20 August 2010.