Northeast Regional

Amtrak’s busiest train, over 12 million riders a year, racing the electrified Northeast Corridor at up to 125 mph without the Acela fare.

Stations

1. 0 kmBoston South Station
2. 2 kmBoston Back Bay
3. 19 kmRoute 128
4. 70 kmProvidence
5. 251 kmNew Haven Union Station
6. 314 kmStamford
7. 372 kmNew York Penn Station
8. 387 kmNewark Penn Station
9. 411 kmMetropark
10. 517 kmPhiladelphia 30th Street Station
11. 558 kmWilmington
12. 668 kmBaltimore Penn Station
13. 685 kmBWI Thurgood Marshall Airport
14. 732 kmWashington Union Station

The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them.

How this line was checked

• Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 9796293 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 29 m of them
• Checked against OpenStreetMap: 98.6% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 9 m); the longest stretch away from it is 6 km
• Checked against the running timetable via Amtrak: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of the Acela to Boston
• Wikipedia has an article for this line
• See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it

Questions and answers

How long is the Northeast Regional?

The Northeast Regional runs 735 km from Boston to Washington.

How long does the Northeast Regional take?

The fastest scheduled journey is 7 h 52 min for the 735 km. That is an average of 93 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 201 km/h.

Who runs the Northeast Regional?

Amtrak, with Amfleet I, Siemens ACS-64.

How old is the Northeast Regional?

The line has been in service since 1995. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.

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