Style: | Amtrak | ||||||||||
Naperville, IL | |||||||||||
Address: | 105 East Fourth Avenue Naperville, Illinois | ||||||||||
Coordinates: | 41.7796°N -88.1455°W | ||||||||||
Country: | United States | ||||||||||
Owned: | City of Naperville | ||||||||||
Line: | BNSF Chicago Subdivision | ||||||||||
Other: | Pace Burlington Trailways | ||||||||||
Platform: | 2 side platforms (1 island platform demolished) | ||||||||||
Tracks: | 3 | ||||||||||
Opened: | 1910 | ||||||||||
Accessible: | Yes | ||||||||||
Zone: | 4 (Metra) | ||||||||||
Other Services Header: | Former services | ||||||||||
Other Services Collapsible: | yes | ||||||||||
Other Services2 Header: | Future services | ||||||||||
Other Services2 Collapsible: | yes | ||||||||||
Map State: | collapsed | ||||||||||
Mapframe: | yes | ||||||||||
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Naperville is a train station in Naperville, Illinois, 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 commuter line, and an abundance of Pace bus routes. Naperville station was originally built in 1910 by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad.[1] 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.[2]
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 station.[3] The station served about 27,000 Amtrak passengers in 2022.[4]