SYSTEM
TIMETABLE AT TRAINWEB
NORTHEAST
CORRIDOR TIMETABLE CHANGES
EFFECTIVE
OCTOBER 31, 2005
ACELA EXPRESS AND
METROLINER:
Train #2150
departs Washington, DC 10 minutes earlier at 5:00AM.
One Metroliner Round-trip
remains in the schedule and has been renumbered into the 2300 series. This
officially ends the practice that all Metroliner trains are numbered in the
lower 100-series.
REGIONAL,
KEYSTONE, CLOCKER, VERMONTER, PENNSYLVANIAN, AND EMPIRE SERVICE CHANGES:
The Clocker
service has been eliminated and replaced with Northeast Corridor Line New
Jersey Transit Trains, which will operate from Trenton to New York City only
with no through service to Philadelphia.
All Regional,
Springfield Shuttle, and Empire Trains as well as all Keystone Trains north of
Philadelphia are entirely all reserved services and the fares are based upon
class of inventory rather than the time of the day and the day of the week as
in the old Unreserved System. When Itinerary changes are made, they now require
a ticket exchange transaction, and likewise, if a higher fare is required, the
difference between the higher and lower fares to be collected.
For Passengers
with Multi-Ride Tickets, the following policies are in place, including Amtrak
Pass Riders. These may be seen in Arrow as noted below:
|
Type of
Multi-Ride Pass or Flash Pass |
Policy and
Pages |
|
Amtrak Monthly
and 10-rides |
G/POL/TKT/P11-P12 |
|
Maryland Area
Rail Commuter Multi-Ride Tickets |
G/POL/COM/P9-P10 |
|
Virginia
Railway Express Multi-Ride Tickets |
G/POL/COM/P12 |
|
Amtrak Employee
Flash Passes |
G/POL/AMP/P57-P64 |
New Jersey
Transit Monthly and Multi-Ride tickets are no longer being honored on any
Amtrak Trains at any time.
Cornwell’s Heights,
Pennsylvania (CWH) Station is being retained. The Decision for this station
came too late to include it in the timetable; hence the line was left out.
Trains will stop there and Amtrak’s web site will show the service pattern for
that station. A table showing which
trains will stop at Cornwell’s Heights will be added to the TTU Section of the
Train web Server in a later update.
Service to and
from the New York/Newark International Airport, NJ Rail Station is being
consolidated into fewer trains due to train congestion issues on New Jersey
Transit’s North Jersey Coast and Northeast Corridor Lines. See Table Below for the new service pattern:
|
Day of Week |
Number of
Trains |
Thru Trains
to/from New England |
|
Weekday
Northbound |
12 |
6 thru to New
England |
|
Weekday
Southbound |
11 |
6 thru from New
England |
|
Saturday
Northbound |
13 |
8 thru to New
England |
|
Saturday
Southbound |
12 |
7 thru from New
England |
|
Sunday
Northbound |
13 |
7 Thru to New
England |
|
Sunday
Southbound |
13 |
7 thru from New
England |
Specific
Regional, Keystone, Springfield Shuttle, Vermonter, and Pennsylvanian Service
Changes are listed below.
|
42 |
Elizabethtown
and Exton Stops Added. |
|
|
43 |
Minor Schedule Adjustments
between New York and Philadelphia. Continues without change to Harrisburg on
current schedule. |
|
|
44 |
Middletown,
Mount Joy, Parkesburg, and Coatesville Stops stricken from schedule. |
|
|
49 |
Add Poughkeepsie,
Rhinecliff-Kingston, Hudson stops to schedule, remove Receive only
restriction at Croton-Harmon. Handle local traffic New York to Albany on all
days using additional coach seats that are available due to the connection
travel off trains 447 and 449 at Albany. |
|
|
54 |
Newark
International Airport Stop stricken from Schedule. |
|
|
55 |
Newark
International Airport Stop Stricken from Schedule. |
|
|
56 |
Newark
International Airport Stop Stricken from Schedule. |
|
|
57 |
Newark International
Airport Stop Stricken from Schedule. |
|
|
66 |
Departs
Providence, arriving at all Boston stops 25 minutes earlier than present
schedule. |
|
|
94 |
Operates 10
minutes earlier Newport News to Washington, DC. |
|
|
95 |
Newark International
Airport Rail Station Stop stricken from schedule. |
|
|
111 |
Departs New
York 5 Minutes Later. New Carrolton Stop added. |
|
|
129 |
Trenton Stop
added. |
|
|
131 |
Metropark-Iselin
Stop added. |
|
|
146 |
Newark International
Airport Stop Stricken from Schedule. |
|
|
151 |
Extended to
operate from New York. Newark, Metropark-Iselin and Trenton Stops added.
Continues on current schedule Philadelphia to Washington. |
|
|
155 |
Newark International
Airport stop stricken from schedule. |
|
|
162 |
Newark
International Airport stop stricken from Schedule. |
|
|
166 |
Newark
International Airport stop stricken from Schedule. |
|
|
169 |
Discontinue Friday
service, add Saturday and Sunday Service and replace train 197 on weekends. |
|
|
197 |
Add Connecticut
Stops at Mystic, Old Saybrook, and Bridgeport. Add New Rochelle, New York
Stop. |
|
|
174 |
Newark
International Airport and Old Saybrook stops added. |
|
|
474 |
New Springfield
Shuttle Train added replaces former train 486. |
|
|
175 |
Operates one
hour later to fill a schedule gap departing Boston South Station. Swaps time
slots with train 187 between New York and Washington. |
|
|
176 |
Metropark-Iselin
stop added. |
|
|
475 |
Depart
Springfield 1 hour later to coordinate at New Haven with the later operation
of connecting train 175. |
|
|
486 |
Discontinued
due to schedule reliability issues with connecting train 86. Use train 474. |
|
|
177 |
Newark
International Airport Stop stricken from schedule. |
|
|
179 |
Operates Boston
to New York Only. Service south of New York to Philadelphia replaced by
connecting train 635, see below.
Train 635 will hold unless train 197 is running gravely behind schedule. |
|
|
180 |
North
Philadelphia Stop stricken from schedule, Cornwell’s Heights stop added. |
|
|
182 |
Newark
International Airport stop stricken from schedule. |
|
|
187 |
Departs Boston 70
minutes earlier, and operates on the current train 175 schedule between New
York and Washington. |
|
|
188 |
Newark
International Airport Stop Stricken from the schedule. |
|
|
193 |
Cornwell’s
Heights stop added. |
|
|
195 |
Newark International
Airport stop stricken from schedule. |
|
|
198 |
Departs
Washington 5 minutes earlier. Newark International Airport Stop Stricken from
Schedule. |
|
|
257 |
Renumbered as
train 235, departs New York at 3:20PM. |
|
|
610 |
Discontinued due
to low ridership. Replaced with train 630, operating through from Harrisburg. |
|
|
613 |
Extended to
operate from New York, see train 631. |
|
|
630 |
New train:
Originates at Harrisburg at 3:55AM, Elizabethtown, Lancaster, Exton, Paoli,
Cornwell’s Heights, and Trenton stops added. |
|
|
631 |
Operates
through to Harrisburg in lieu of Philadelphia-Harrisburg only train 631.
Newark and Trenton stops added.
Departs New York City at 12:05PM. |
|
|
640 |
Cornwell’s
Heights and Newark International Airport Stops stricken from schedule. |
|
|
643 |
Departs five
minutes earlier from New York due to conflict with Acela Express train 2211
on Sundays. |
|
|
648 |
New Brunswick
stop stricken from schedule. |
|
|
649 |
Cornwell’s Heights
Stop stricken from schedule. |
|
|
653 |
Trenton Stop
Added. |
|
|
656 |
Newark
International Airport stop stricken from schedule. |
|
|
657 |
Newark
International Airport and Metropark-Iselin stops added. |
|
|
662 |
Newark International
Airport stop Stricken from Schedule. |
|
|
414 |
Discontinued.
Use train 140. |
|
|
465 |
Discontinued.
Use train 467. |
|
|
624 |
Discontinued |
|
|
629 |
Discontinued |
|
|
633 |
Discontinued |
|
FURTHER
INFORMATION ON THE CLOCKERS:
The Clocker
Division contained within the System Timetable will be stricken and de-indexed.
The Clockers will be reintroduced as New Jersey Transit Northeast Corridor Line
service.
There is no more Clocker
service. The majority of the passengers who were riding these trains were
essentially Northeast Corridor Line New Jersey Transit passengers. New Jersey
Transit has added trains into their schedule to handle these passengers.
Therefore, there will be no more Amtrak Trains shown in the New Jersey Transit
Northeast Corridor or North Jersey Coast Line timetables effective October 31,
2005. This service change is
permanent. With this change, as
previously announced in the Website Monthly News Letter, http://www.trainweb.org/nationaltimetable/announcements/20nov05/update.html
are no longer being honored on any Amtrak train at any time. Some of the new trains added by New Jersey
Transit operating on roughly similar time slots to the Clockers are shown in
the table below.
|
Northbound |
Departs Trenton |
Southbound |
Departs New
York |
|
3924 |
7:10 |
3967 |
17:30 |
|
3932 |
8:33 |
3971 |
18:01 |
As noted, there will
be no through service to Philadelphia, however, SEPTA does offer connecting
service between Trenton and Philadelphia on their R-7 Line. SEPTA and New
Jersey Transit should be contacted separately for inetermediate station stops
and times. The Septa R-2 (Newark), R-5
(Paoli), and R-7 (Trenton) lines will be phased into the commuter services
section of the Train web System Timetable.
MORE EMPIRE
SERVICE CHANGES:
There has been a
complete restructuring of Empire Service train numbering. This primarily affects
the trains operating only from New York to Albany. The trains west of Albany remain in the 280-series, and the Ethan
Allen Express remains in the 290-series as they are today. The full restructuring plan is shown below
to familiarize readers with the new sequencing.
|
Train Number
Series |
Service Pattern |
|
230-249 |
Weekdays –
Local trains New York to Albany only. |
|
250-269 |
Weekends –
Local trains New York to Albany only. |
|
280-289 |
All New York to
Niagra Falls Through Trains. |
|
290-299 |
All New York to
Rutland through Trains. |
With this change,
the 270-279 series, not shown in the table above, is vacated. This series will
be used for special event trains only.
There are no service
changes to the Maple Leaf, Ethan Allen Express, or Adirondack.
The Two Remaining
Metroliners that are in the schedule are in the table below:
|
Southbound |
Depart New York |
Northbound |
Depart
Washington |
|
2301 |
18:00 |
2300 |
10:00 |
MORE ON THE
EMPIRE SERVICE AND LAKE SHORE LIMITED SCHEDULE ISSUES:
There was a
weekday scheduling conflict between Amtrak and Metro North concerning current
train 257, which is renumbered as train 235 on the new schedule and train
49. To resolve this matter, train 235,
formerly 257, is rescheduled to a 3:20PM departure from New York and train 49
remains untouched at 3:50PM. However,
now that there are some 120 coach seats available for sale between New York and
Albany on any given weekday, Local traffic is now being handled at stops
between New York and Albany as summarized in the table above, (see train #49
row). These seats are available thanks to not having a through car section
operating between Boston and Chicago, since the Massachusetts passengers transfer
at Albany from trains 447 and 449.
These seats will now be used for New York to Albany local travel,
representing a policy change with local stops on Long Haul Trains. These seats
will be available seven days a week. Train 49 closes a large gaping hole in the
afternoon scheduling on Saturday and Sunday Afternoons.
