Windermere (RTA Rapid Transit station)

Louis Stokes Station at Windermere
Red Line   HealthLine  rapid transit and bus rapid transit station
The station building from the parking lot
Location	14233 Euclid Avenue East Cleveland, Ohio 44112
Coordinates	41°31′50″N 81°35′6″W / 41.53056°N 81.58500°W / 41.53056; -81.58500Coordinates: 41°31′50″N 81°35′6″W / 41.53056°N 81.58500°W / 41.53056; -81.58500
Owned by	Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority
Line(s)	Red Line   HealthLine
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	3 (Superior) 28/28A (East 276–Euclid) 28A Weekdays Only 30 (East 140th–Lakeshore) 37 (East 185th–Taylor) 41/41F (Warrensville) 41F Weekdays Only
Construction
Structure type	Embankment
Parking	410 spaces
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	March 15, 1955
Rebuilt	June 22, 1997
Previous names	Windermere
Services
Preceding station   Rapid Transit   Following station Superior toward Airport Red Line Terminus Debra Ann Lane toward Public Square–West Roadway HealthLine westbound Belmore Road One-way operation HealthLine eastbound
Location

Former Services 1955-1978
Services   Former services   Preceding station   Rapid Transit   Following station Superior toward Airport Airport-Windermere Line 1975-1978 Terminus Cleveland Transit System Superior toward Airport CTS Rapid Transit 1955-1975 Terminus

Louis Stokes Station at Windermere is a rapid transit station on the RTA Red Line in East Cleveland, Ohio, USA. It is located on the northwest side of Euclid Avenue (U.S. Routes 6 and 20) between Bryn Mawr and Doan Roads. It is the eastern terminus of the Red Line and the bus rapid transit HealthLine.

Prior to being a rapid transit station, the site was the location of the Windermere Car Barn of the Cleveland Railway and its successor, the Cleveland Transit System (CTS). As streetcars were retired in favor of buses, Windermere also became a bus garage.

On February 4, 1952, CTS broke ground for its rapid transit behind the Windermere Car Barn, on the same embankment as the Nickel Plate railway tracks. The new station, called simply "Windermere Station," opened with the CTS Rapid Transit on March 15, 1955.

As originally constructed, the station included on the embankment level a car yard and car shops for the rapid transit and a loop to allow trains to turn around if needed (although the car sets all had operator cabs are both ends). On the south side below the tracks, there were a fare collection headhouse, three bus loading loops and a small free parking lot off Euclid Avenue, along with an elevated walkway over the bus loops to the Euclid Avenue parking lot. A pedestrian tunnel beneath the embankment carrying rapid transit and railway tracks connected the station to a larger free parking lot on the northwest side of the tracks. The entrance to the northwest parking lot was from Hayden Avenue. The Hayden bus garage was also built adjacent to the northwest lot to replace the Windermere Car Barn.