Loyola station

Loyola
Location	1200 West Loyola Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60626
Coordinates	42°00′04″N 87°39′40″W / 42.001076°N 87.660974°W / 42.001076; -87.660974
Owned by	Chicago Transit Authority
Line(s)	Red Line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	4
Construction
Structure type	Embankment
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	May 16, 1908
Rebuilt	1921, 1980–82, 2012–13
Previous names	Hayes Street
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	1,821,379  0.3%
Rank	36 out of 143
Services
Preceding station   Chicago "L"   Following station Morse toward Howard Red Line Granville toward 95th/Dan Ryan
Route map Purple Line Express north to Linden Red Line north to Howard Sheridan Road Purple Line Express south to Loop Red Line south to 95th/Dan Ryan

Loyola is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, served by the Red Line. It is located at 1200 West Loyola Avenue in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The station has high ridership by students from the nearby Lakeshore Campus of Loyola University Chicago. The Red Line right-of-way runs directly through the southwest corner of the campus.

This is the third station at this location; the original opened in 1908 and was rebuilt in 1921, the current station was built from 1980 to 1982. The entrance to the original station was on Loyola Avenue, but the new station's entrance is technically on the west side of Sheridan Road, ideally situated across the street from a heavily used Loyola campus entrance. On Loyola Avenue, there is still a passageway leading to the turnstiles as well as an exit/entrance rotorgate operated by Ventra farecards. The station is accessible to those with disabilities.

The current platform is elevated on a fill embankment and an island between the southbound Red Line tracks to the west and the northbound Red Line tracks to the east. There is no platform access to the outside express tracks used by Purple Line Express trains during weekday rush hours. The platform is exceptionally long and narrow, over 1,000 feet (300 m) in length. It is also somewhat curved to the northwest. The platform is split in half by an elevator shaft. Southbound trains stop at the north portion of the platform while northbound trains stop at the south portion, although these locations were reversed prior to August 1998. Both halves of the platform can handle eight-car trains, the typical car length in use on the Red Line. A viaduct carries a portion of the southern platform over Sheridan Road.

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