The Aurora Transportation Center is a station on Metra's BNSF Railway Line in Aurora, Illinois. The station is 37.1 miles (59.7 km) from Union Station, the east end of the line. In Metra's zone-based fare system, Aurora is in zone H. There is a staffed station building. Just north of the station is the Aurora Hill Yard, a large coach yard used to store the Metra trains on the BNSF Line.
Aurora is the west end of the BNSF Railway Line and is served by numerous Pace bus routes. It served as a Greyhound bus stop until September 7, 2011. Amtrak trains do not stop here. There has been speculation the line will be extended to the Plano Amtrak station.
The station replaced the former Aurora Train Station, at the corners of South Broadway and Washington Street (see picture below). That station was smaller with considerably less parking area, but Amtrak trains as well as Metra trains stopped here. The station opened in the early 1900s and closed in the mid-1980s. The building was torn down in April 2013.
Aurora is a stub-track terminal, which means the Metra tracks stop here. Amtrak and BNSF freights use the two tracks east of the station.
Video Aurora Transportation Center
Bus connections
Pace
- 521 East Circulator
- 524 West Circulator
- 528 Aurora Transportation Center/Rush-Copley Medical Center
- 529 Randall Road/5th Street
- 530 West Galena/Westfield Shoppingtown Fox Valley Center
- 532 Illinois Avenue
- 533 Molitor
- 802 Aurora/St. Charles
- 907 Oswego/Aurora Metra Shuttle
Maps Aurora Transportation Center
References
External links
Media related to Aurora Transportation Center at Wikimedia Commons
- Metra - Stations - Aurora Transportation Center
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