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Discontinued Amtrak train in Illinois

Campus
Overview
Service typeInter-city rail
StatusDiscontinued
LocaleIllinois
First serviceNovember 14, 1971
Last serviceMarch 5, 1972
SuccessorIllini
Former operator(s)Amtrak
Route
TerminiChicago
Champaign-Urbana
Stops2
Distance travelled127 miles (204 km)
Average journey time2 hours 10 minutes
Service frequencyFriday/Sunday
Train number(s)394 and 395
On-board services
Catering facilitiesOn-board cafe
Technical
Track gauge4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
Track owner(s)Illinois Central
Route map
Legend
Dist. Station
0 mi Chicago
22 mi
35 km
Homewood
112 mi
180 km
Rantoul
127 mi
204 km
Champaign-Urbana
to Carbondale
This diagram:

The Campus was a passenger short lived 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

  1. "Nationwide schedules of intercity passenger service". Amtrak. November 14, 1971. Retrieved April 10, 2010.
  2. 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.
  3. Sanders, Craig (2006). Amtrak in the Heartland. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-34705-3.
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