Naperville is a train station in

Naperville, Illinois Naperville ( ) is a city in DuPage County, Illinois, DuPage and Will County, Illinois, Will counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is a southwestern suburb of Chicago located west of the city on the DuPage River. As of the 2020 United State ...

, served by

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, the national railroad passenger system. Amtrak trains stopping at the Naperville station include the ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. It is also one of two stations in Naperville that serves

Metra Metra is the primary commuter rail system in the Chicago metropolitan area serving the city of Chicago and its surrounding suburbs via the Union Pacific Railroad, BNSF Railway, and other railroads. The system operates 243 train station, stati ...

's BNSF commuter line, and an abundance of

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routes. Naperville station was originally built in 1910 by the

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. On April 26, 1946, the station was the site of

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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. 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. The station served about 27,000 Amtrak passengers in 2022.

Bus connections

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

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External links

Naperville Amtrak & Metra Station (USA Rail Guide – Train Web)Station from Google Maps Street View
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