South Bend Airport station

South Bend Airport
A South Shore Line train at South Bend Airport in 2004
General information
Location	4485 Progress Drive South Bend, Indiana
Coordinates	41°42′03″N 86°18′40″W / 41.7008°N 86.3110°W / 41.7008; -86.3110
Owned by	NICTD
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	Transpo
Construction
Parking	Yes
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	11
History
Opened	November 20, 1992
Electrified	Yes (1500 V DC)
Passengers
2019	227 (average weekday)[1]
Services
Preceding station NICTD Following station Hudson Lake toward Millennium Station South Shore Line Terminus
Former services Preceding station NICTD Following station New Carlisle Closed 1994 toward Millennium Station South Shore Line Terminus
Track layout Legend to Millennium
Location

South Bend Airport is a commuter train station on, and the eastern terminus of, the South Shore Line. Servicing South Bend International Airport, the station is 3 miles (4.8 km) northwest of Downtown South Bend, Indiana. In November 1992, the Airport station replaced the South Shore Line's former terminus at the South Bend Amtrak Station. The new station was constructed at a cost of $1.8 million and dedicated on November 20, 1992.

The station has a waiting room. Because the station is incorporated into the South Bend International Airport building, riders can also take advantage of its extensive lounging areas, shops and a meditation room.

Until November 27, 2009, most eastbound weekend South Shore Line trains terminated at this station. Since then, those trips have been cut in half, creating much larger gaps in service, to improve on-time performance for South Shore trains, which had suffered because the section of the line between Michigan City and South Bend is almost entirely single-tracked. Thus, if the westbound train got delayed, the eastbound train would get delayed even more because it will need to wait for the westbound train to clear the track.^[2]