South Bend station
South Bend, IN | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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South Bend TRANSPO: 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Parking | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Station code | Amtrak: SOB | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | July 7, 1970[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FY 2022 | 18,848[2] (Amtrak) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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History
Until 1970, South Shore Line interurbans served downtown South Bend at
On August 7, 1969, South Bend mayor Lloyd M. Allen announced that the railroad would move its station. Allen claimed that for the past five years he had been working to persuade them to move the station.[3] The station opened in 1970.
When Amtrak took over intercity rail service in 1971, it moved intercity rail service in South Bend to this station, away from the larger Union Station.[4][5][6]
The South Shore Line moved its terminus to a new terminal at the South Bend International Airport in November 1992, although the track that used to terminate here was retained.[7]
In the 1990s, there was some discussion of moving Amtrak to the Union Station.[8] Subsequently, there were plans to build a new Amtrak station component at South Bend Transpo's South Street Station.[9] Ultimately, this never materialized.[10]
In the late-2010s, returning the South Shore Line to this location was studied as one of several options for replacing the current South Shore Line station.[11][12]
Notes
- ^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2022: State of Indiana" (PDF). Amtrak. June 2023. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
- ^ a b Parrott, Jeff (July 19, 2017). "How the South Shore took its current path". South Bend Tribune. Retrieved November 27, 2020.
- ^ "Interurban Moves into New Station". The South Bend News-Times. August 3, 1921. p. 4. Retrieved October 28, 2015.
- ^ Ogorek 2012, p. 62
- ^ Ogorek 2012, p. 93
- ^ "Tie that binds". Newspapers.com. The South Bend Tribune. July 5, 1992. Retrieved January 7, 2021.
- ^ Sulok, Nancy J. (May 14, 1998). "If Transpo's electric buses have impact, it will be big shock". Newspapers.com. The South Bend Tribune. Retrieved January 6, 2021.
- ^ "Laporte County intermodal rail yard". WNDU. September 2, 2007. Archived from the original on July 20, 2008. Retrieved November 21, 2019.
- ^ Steele, Andrew (April 21, 2019). "Five options for new South Shore station in South Bend". Northwest Indiana Times. Retrieved April 10, 2019.
- ^ "South Bend Station Alternatives" (PDF). AECOM. April 19, 2018. Retrieved May 31, 2019.
References
- Ogorek, Cynthia L. (2012). Along the Chicago South Shore & South Bend Rail Line. Images of America. Charleston, South Carolina: ISBN 978-0-738-59419-4.
External links
- Media related to South Bend station at Wikimedia Commons