Naperville station

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Naperville, IL
Naperville Station Aerial.jpg
Naperville station
Location105 East Fourth Avenue
Naperville, Illinois
United States
Coordinates41°46′47″N 88°08′44″W / 41.7796°N 88.1455°W / 41.7796; -88.1455Coordinates: 41°46′47″N 88°08′44″W / 41.7796°N 88.1455°W / 41.7796; -88.1455
Owned byCity of Naperville
Line(s)BNSF Chicago Subdivision
Platforms2 side platforms (1 island platform demolished)
Tracks3
ConnectionsBus transport Pace
Bus transport Burlington Trailways
Construction
Disabled accessYes
Other information
Station codeAmtrak: NPV
Fare zoneF (Metra)
History
Opened1910
Passengers
FY201940,902 annually[1] (Amtrak)
20184,015 (average weekday)[2] Decrease 2.2% (Metra)
Rank2 out of 236 (Metra)[2]
Services
Preceding station BSicon LOGO Amtrak2.svg Amtrak Following station
Princeton
toward Emeryville
 California Zephyr Chicago
Terminus
Mendota
toward Los Angeles
 Southwest Chief
Plano
toward Quincy
 Illinois Zephyr and Carl Sandburg La Grange Road
toward Chicago
Preceding station Metramlogo.svg Metra Following station
Route 59
toward Aurora
 BNSF Lisle
toward Union Station
Former services
Preceding station BSicon LOGO Amtrak2.svg Amtrak Following station
Princeton
toward Los Angeles
 Desert Wind
Discontinued in 1997
 Chicago
Terminus
Preceding station Burlington Route Following station
toward Aurora
 Suburban Service Lisle
toward Chicago
Future services
Preceding station BSicon LOGO Amtrak2.svg Amtrak Following station
Plano
toward Moline
 Quad Cities
Proposed
 La Grange
toward Chicago

Naperville is a train station in Naperville, Illinois, United States served by Amtrak, the national railroad passenger system. Amtrak trains stopping at the Naperville station include the California Zephyr, Illinois Zephyr, Carl Sandburg and Southwest Chief. It is also one of two stations in Naperville that serves Metra's BNSF Railway commuter line, and an abundance of Pace bus routes. Naperville station was originally built in 1910 by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad.[3] On April 26, 1946, the station was the site of a collision between the CB&Q's Exposition Flyer and Advance Flyer. On April 26, 2014, a memorial entitled Tragedy to Triumph was dedicated at the train station. The sculpture by Paul Kuhn is dedicated not only to the crash victims but also to the rescuers at the site.[4]

As of 2018, Naperville has an average of 4,015 weekday boardings for Metra trains. This makes the station the second busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, after Route 59.[2] The station also serves 53,000 Amtrak passengers annually.[5]

Bus connections[]

Pace

  • 530 West Galena–Naperville Metra Station
  • 714 College of DuPage–Naperville–Wheaton Connector
  • 722 Ogden Avenue

Notes[]

  1. ^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2019: State of Illinois" (PDF). Amtrak. May 2020. Retrieved March 2, 2022.
  2. ^ a b c "Commuter Rail System Station Boarding/Alighting Count: Summary Results Fall 2018" (PDF). Metra. April 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 May 2019.
  3. ^ Naperville, Illinois; Great American Stations (Amtrak)
  4. ^ Susan Frick Carlman (February 28, 2014). "Anatomy of an art project". Naperville Sun. pp. 1, 6 & 7.
  5. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-12-22. Retrieved 2013-12-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

External links[]

Media related to Naperville station at Wikimedia Commons

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