Campus (train)
Overview | |||||
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Service type | Inter-city rail | ||||
Status | Discontinued | ||||
Locale | Illinois | ||||
First service | November 14, 1971 | ||||
Last service | March 5, 1972 | ||||
Former operator(s) | Amtrak | ||||
Route | |||||
Termini | Chicago Champaign-Urbana | ||||
Stops | 2 | ||||
Distance travelled | 127 miles (204 km) | ||||
Average journey time | 2 hours 10 minutes | ||||
Service frequency | Friday/Sunday | ||||
Train number(s) | 394 and 395 | ||||
On-board services | |||||
Catering facilities | On-board cafe | ||||
Technical | |||||
Track gauge | 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) | ||||
Track owner(s) | Illinois Central | ||||
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The Campus was a passenger train operated by Amtrak between Chicago and Champaign, Illinois. The Chicago-Champaign corridor already saw two trains daily: the Shawnee (Chicago-Carbondale) and the Panama Limited (Chicago-New Orleans). The Campus made a round-trip Friday and Sunday, serving the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. A second train, the Illini, made a Friday trip. The Campus first appeared on the November 14, 1971, timetable, the first timetable Amtrak issued with its own numbers.[1] Amtrak discontinued the Campus and Illini on March 5, 1972. Both trains had used Central Station, which Amtrak was abandoning; Amtrak judged that the additional 35–40 minutes necessary to serve Union Station made the schedule impractical.[2] The Campus was the last passenger train to use Central Station.[3]: 100
References
- ^ "Nationwide schedules of intercity passenger service". Amtrak. November 14, 1971. Retrieved April 10, 2010.
- ^ In fact, a re-launched Illini needed only an additional fifteen minutes to make the trip in 1974. "All-America Schedules". Amtrak. November 15, 1974. Retrieved April 10, 2010.
- ^ Sanders, Craig (2006). Amtrak in the Heartland. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-34705-3.