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Campus (train)

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Status
  
Discontinued

Distance travelled
  
127 miles (204 km)

Service frequency
  
Friday/Sunday

Last service
  
5 March 1972

End
  
Illinois Terminal

Former operator
  
Stops
  
2

Locale
  
Illinois

Average journey time
  
2 hours 10 minutes

Train number(s)
  
394 and 395

First service
  
14 November 1971

Service type
  

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. 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. The Campus was the last passenger train to use Central Station.

References

Campus (train) Wikipedia


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