Uptown Station

Uptown Station Bloomington–Normal, IL
General information
Location	11 Uptown Circle Normal, Illinois United States
Coordinates	40°30′31″N 88°59′03″W / 40.50861°N 88.98417°W / 40.50861; -88.98417
Owned by	Town of Normal
Line(s)	UP Joliet Subdivision
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	Amtrak Thruway Burlington Trailways Connect Transit Peoria Charter SHOW Bus
Construction
Parking	380 spaces
Accessible	Yes
Architect	Ratio Architects
Architectural style	Four-story red brick structure with limestone lintels and doorways
Other information
Station code	Amtrak: BNL
History
Opened	1990
Rebuilt	2012
Passengers
FY 2023	203,842[1] (Amtrak)
Services
Preceding station Amtrak Following station Lincoln toward St. Louis Lincoln Service Pontiac toward Chicago Lincoln toward Los Angeles or San Antonio Texas Eagle
Former services Preceding station Amtrak Following station Lincoln toward Laredo or Houston Inter-American Pontiac toward Chicago Lincoln toward Springfield Loop Preceding station Alton Railroad Following station Bloomington toward St. Louis Main Line Towanda toward Chicago Preceding station Illinois Central Railroad Following station Panola toward Freeport Freeport – Centralia Colonial toward Centralia
Location

Uptown Station is an intermodal transportation center^[2] in Normal, Illinois, United States. It is served by Amtrak, the national railroad passenger system, and is the major intercity rail station in north-central Illinois. It appears on Amtrak timetables as Bloomington–Normal.

Amtrak runs two routes through the station–the Lincoln Service and the Texas Eagle. This was also a stop for the Ann Rutledge until April 2007. Amtrak Thruway motorcoach routes serve the station via Davenport, Galesburg, Peoria, Champaign-Urbana, and Indianapolis.

In 2022, 178,018 train passengers boarded or alighted from Amtrak trains at Uptown Station, making it the second busiest Amtrak station in Illinois behind Chicago^[3] This is primarily due to the large number of passengers traveling to and from Chicago and St. Louis. In 2019 Uptown station was the 44th busiest Amtrak station in the United States with 229,894 passengers.^[4]