| Style: | Metra | ||||||||||
| Coordinates: | 41.8817°N -88.31°W | ||||||||||
| Other: | Pace bus | ||||||||||
| Platform: | 2 Side platforms | ||||||||||
| Tracks: | 2 | ||||||||||
| Passengers: | 1,742 (average weekday) | ||||||||||
| Pass Year: | 2018 | ||||||||||
| Pass Percent: | 2.0 | ||||||||||
| Pass Rank: | 14 out of 236 | ||||||||||
| Rebuilt: | , | ||||||||||
| Accessible: | Yes | ||||||||||
| Owned: | City of Geneva | ||||||||||
| Zone: | 4 | ||||||||||
| Other Services Header: | Former services | ||||||||||
| Other Services Collapsible: | yes | ||||||||||
| Map State: | collapsed | ||||||||||
| Mapframe: | yes | ||||||||||
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Geneva is a Metra commuter railroad station in Geneva, Illinois, served by Metra's Union Pacific West Line. The station is 35.5miles away from Ogilvie Transportation Center.[1] In Metra's zone-based fare structure, Geneva is in zone 4., Geneva is the 14th busiest of the 236 non-downtown stations in the Metra system, with an average of 1,742 weekday boardings.[2] Unless otherwise announced, inbound trains use the north platform and outbound trains use the south platform.
Geneva is currently the only station on the Union Pacific West Line that has not been triple tracked; however, in 2022, the Union Pacific Railroad began construction on a third track throughout Geneva. Construction is scheduled to conclude in late 2024.[3] [4]
As of February 16, 2024, Geneva is served by 56 trains (28 in each direction) on weekdays, by all 20 trains (10 in each direction) on Saturdays, and by all 18 trains (nine in each direction) on Sundays and holidays. On weekdays, three inbound trains originate here, and two outbound trains terminate here.
The station consists of two side platforms and a waiting room, with a ticket agent booth staffed on weekday mornings. Trains go east to Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago and west to Elburn, Illinois. Until the line's extension to on January 23, 2006, Geneva was the western terminus of the Union Pacific West Line.
Until 2006 and the line's extension, half of the weekend trains started at . Since then, all of those trains were moved to Elburn, leaving all weekend trains to serve Geneva.