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Olympia Fields

Olympia Fields is a station on Metra's Metra Electric District located in Olympia Fields, Illinois. The station is located on 203rd Street two blocks east of Kedzie Avenue and is adjacent to the Olympia Fields Country Club to the east and the Olympia Fields U.S. post office and commuter parking to t

he west. The station is 26.6 miles (42.8 km) from Millennium Station, the northern terminus of the Metra Electric District. In Metra's zone-based fare system, Olympia Fields is located in zone 3. As of 2018, Olympia Fields is the 77th busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 679 weekday boardings. The station is on a solid-fill elevated structure and consists of one island platform which serves the Metra Electric District's tracks. The adjacent two track right-of-way is owned by the Canadian National Railway and also carries three Amtrak lines, the City of New Orleans, Illini and Saluki. None of the Amtrak trains stop here. Although the tracks are on an elevated fill, it is only high enough for a pedestrian underpass to the Olympia Fields Country Club. 203rd Street is a dead end street at the station. There is no ticket agent at Olympia Fields, but tickets may be purchased...

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