Lake Street Transfer station (original) (raw)

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The Lake Street Transfer station was a rapid transit station on the Chicago "L", serving as a transfer station between its Lake Street Elevated and the Logan Square branch of its Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad. Located where the Logan Square branch crossed over the Lake Street Elevated, it was in service from 1913 to 1951, when it was rendered obsolete by the construction of the Dearborn Street subway. The transfer station was an amalgamation of two predecessor stations. Wood, on the Lake Street Elevated, was on Wood Street, one block west of the site of the future transfer, and had been constructed in 1893. The Metropolitan's Lake station, on the other hand, was on the site of the future transfer and had been built in 1895. The merger of the stations was a legal obligation to the Lake Street Elevated's owner when the four companies that had formed the Chicago "L" merged operations in the early 1910s, and involved its closing of Wood station and building a station at the site of its transfer with the Metropolitan. Having already merged operations, the "L" companies formally united under the Chicago Rapid Transit Company (CRT) in 1924; public ownership of the "L" took place when the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) assumed operations in 1947. Plans for a subway to provide a more direct route from Logan Square to downtown dated to the late 1930s, but the subway was originally intended to supplement the Logan Square branch of the area, on which the Metropolitan's station lay, rather than replace it. The newfangled CTA, however, found little reason to continue operation of the old Logan Square elevated. The subway was completed in 1951, leading to the station's closing, but remnants survived into the 1960s. The site of the station later served as the junction of the Paulina Connector – the descendant of the old Logan Square trackage – and the Lake Street Elevated, which was used for temporary and non-revenue service until the Pink Line opened in 2006 and returned it to revenue status. Lake Street Transfer was double-decked, the Metropolitan's tracks and station located immediately above the Lake Street's tracks and station. Access to the eastbound Lake Street platform was by a station house at the street level; passengers would then use the platform to access the Metropolitan's platforms and Lake Street's westbound platform by additional stairways. (en)

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Chicago, Illinois, US (en)
1719 WestLake Street (en)

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Lake Street (Logan Square branch) (en)
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1893-11-06 (xsd:date)
1895-05-06 (xsd:date)
1913-11-03 (xsd:date)

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1895-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
1913-01-01 (xsd:gYear)

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4side platforms

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Elevated

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The Lake Street Transfer. The Metropolitan is on top, the Lake Street Elevated on bottom. (en)

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Former Chicago 'L' rapid transit station (en)

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The Lake Street Transfer station was a rapid transit station on the Chicago "L", serving as a transfer station between its Lake Street Elevated and the Logan Square branch of its Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad. Located where the Logan Square branch crossed over the Lake Street Elevated, it was in service from 1913 to 1951, when it was rendered obsolete by the construction of the Dearborn Street subway. (en)

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