Classic route
Downeaster
Boston → Brunswick · United States
Downeaster in pictures
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- Distance
- 233 km
- Fastest time
- 3 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 67 km/h
- Top speed
- 127 km/h
- Operator
- Amtrak · NNEPRA
- Train
- Amfleet · GE P42DC
- Countries
- United States
- In service since
- 2001
- Riders per year
- ≈ 598k
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Maine’s state-run link passed 10 million riders in December 2024, serving coastal Old Orchard Beach and the outlet town of Freeport.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 4743492 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of 681
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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