Wellington Brown Line Station Reopens Tomorrow

The CTA reminds customers that the Brown Line Wellington station will reopen to customers and resume rail service tomorrow – Thursday, July 30 at approximately 4:45 a.m. – following a 16-month temporary closure for construction as part of the line’s capacity expansion project. 

A new stationhouse was built in the same location as the previous stationhouse at 945 W. Wellington Avenue and a new auxiliary exit has been built just north of the station on Nelson Street for added customer convenience. 

With the addition of two elevators, the Wellington station now is accessible to customers with disabilities.  When this station reopens, 89 of CTA’s 144 rail stations will be accessible. 

The platforms at Wellington were reconfigured to accommodate eight-car trains, which allow more customers to board.  Other conveniences include accessible turnstiles, brighter lighting, new signs – including Braille signs – and a bike rack. 

Wellington is the sixteenth of 18 stations included in the Brown Line capacity expansion project to be completed.  To date, work also has been completed at Kimball, Kedzie, Rockwell, Francisco, Western, Sedgwick, Montrose, Addison, Southport, Armitage, Diversey, Chicago, Damen, Irving Park and Paulina. 

With the completion of Wellington, all of the Brown Line stations temporarily closed for renovation now are open.  Although construction remains under way at Belmont and Fullerton, service continues to operate at both stations.

Prior to the start of construction, the average weekday ridership at the Wellington station was 2,700.  Average weekday ridership on the Brown Line is more than 80,000. 

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