Thorndale station (CTA)

Thorndale   5900N 1200W
Location	1118 West Thorndale Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60660
Coordinates	41°59′24″N 87°39′33″W / 41.990133°N 87.659082°W / 41.990133; -87.659082
Owned by	Chicago Transit Authority
Line(s)	Red Line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	4
Construction
Structure type	Embankment
Bicycle facilities	Yes
History
Opened	February 14, 1915
Rebuilt	1921, 2012
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	1,013,867  1.9%
Rank	72 out of 143
Services
Preceding station   Chicago "L"   Following station North Side Main Line Granville toward Howard Red Line Bryn Mawr toward 95th/Dan Ryan Red Line Rush period special Bryn Mawr toward Ashland/63rd
Route map Purple Line Express north to Linden Red Line north to Howard Thorndale Ave. Purple Line Express south to Loop Red Line south to 95th/Dan Ryan

Thorndale is an 'L' station on the CTA's Red Line. It is located at 1118 West Thorndale Avenue in the Edgewater neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The adjacent stations are Granville, located about one quarter mile to the north, and Bryn Mawr, about one half mile to the south. Four tracks pass through the station, but there is only a single island platform in the center of the tracks; Purple Line weekday rush hour express service use the outside tracks but do not stop at this station. Thorndale is named for the Thorndale station in the community of the same name, which is west of Philadelphia. Many of the streets (and thus CTA stations) in the Edgewater neighborhood are named after stops on the former PRR Main Line.

A temporary station opened at Thorndale in 1915. This was replaced with a permanent station built to a design by architect Charles P. Rawson in 1921 as part of a project by the Northwestern Elevated Railroad to raise the tracks between Wilson and Howard onto an embankment.

Closure of the Thorndale station (along with Lawrence, and Jarvis on the Red Line and South Boulevard and Foster on the Purple Line) is proposed in of three of the CTA's six potential options for the renovation of the Purple Line and northern section of the Red Line. In two plans, the station would be replaced by new auxiliary entrances at Glenlake from Granville and Hollywood from Bryn Mawr. In the third, replacement would be by auxiliary entrances at Elmdale from a new subterranean station at Glenlake and at Hollywood from a new station at Bryn Mawr.