Foster is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, on the Purple Line in Evanston, Illinois. It is located at 900 Foster Street (directional coordinates 2000 north, 900 west), just a few blocks west of Northwestern University's Evanston campus. [[image:Madrid-metro-1. ... Quincy L Station serving the Brown Line, Purple Line and Orange Line The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), founded on October 1, 1947, provides bus and rail mass transit services to the citizens of Chicago and several of the citys inner suburbs. ... The L is the principal urban heavy rail and metro serving Chicago, Illinois in the United States. ... The Purple Line (Evanston Service) of the Chicago Transit Authority is a 3. ... Incorporated City in 1872. ... For other schools named Northwestern please see Northwestern College. ...
Like the rest of the 'L' tracks north of the Wilson station, Foster is elevated on a solid fill embankment, unlike the steel structure commonly associated with the 'L'. It lacks a formal station house; two staircases on the south side of Foster Street lead up to a small area containing a customer assistant's booth, a farecard vending machine, and two turnstiles. The island platform is composed of concrete and stretches north from the station entrance, covered by a canopy its entire length. Southbound trains stop on the west side of the platform, while northbound trains stop at the east part. The platform can only accommodate six-car trains due to the fact that the north tip of the platform has been removed, although its framing and canopy is still in place. Turnstiles at Alewife subway station in Cambridge, Massachusetts A turnstile is a form of gate which allows movement of people into a building or venue, but not out. ...
External links
Train schedule (PDF) at CTA official site
Coordinates: 42.054136° N -87.683604° E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically); large version (pdf) The geographic (earth-mapping) coordinate system expresses every horizontal position on Earth by two of the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system which is aligned with the spin axis of the Earth. ...
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