Harvey is one of two

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stations along the line's Main Branch in

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. The station is located at Park Avenue and 154th Street, and is away from the northern terminus at

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. In Metra's zone-based fare system, Harvey is in zone 2. , Harvey is the 102nd busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 471 weekday boardings. 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

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line that crosses underneath the Metra Electric Main Branch, as well as the

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line that runs parallel to it, carrying the ''

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'', '' Illini'', and ''

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'' trains. These tracks carried the intercity-trains of the

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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. On the evening of October 12, 1979, a switchman incorrectly aligned a switch in front of an oncoming Amtrak train, leading it to go across a now-removed crossover into a stationary freight train. The resulting crash killed 2 crew members of the freight train in what would become known as the Harvey, Illinois train collision. The station is scheduled to be completely reconstructed in the near future, modernizing it and the nearby Pace bus terminal and making both ADA accessible.https://metra.com/PaceHarveyTC

Bus connections

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* 348 Harvey/Riverdale/Blue Island (Weekdays only) * 349 South Western * 350 Sibley * 352 Halsted (24/7 service) * 354 Harvey/Oak Forest Loop (Monday–Saturday only) * 356 Harvey/Homewood/Tinley Park * 360 Harvey/Amazon Monee Express (Amazon shifts only) * 361 Harvey/Laraway Crossings Express (Amazon shifts only) * 364 159th Street * 890 Chicago Heights/UPS Hodgkins (Weekday UPS shifts only)

References

External links

Train heading north of Harvey Station (Metra Railfan Photos)Main entrance along Park Avenue from Google Maps Street View155th Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
{{DEFAULTSORT:Harvey Metra stations in Illinois Former Illinois Central Railroad stations

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Railway stations in Cook County, Illinois Former New York Central Railroad stations Railway stations in the United States opened in 1856