Classic route
Northeast Regional
Boston → Washington · United States
Northeast Regional in pictures
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- Distance
- 735 km
- Fastest time
- 7 h 52 min
- Average speed
- 93 km/h
- Top speed
- 201 km/h
- Operator
- Amtrak
- Train
- Amfleet I · Siemens ACS-64
- Countries
- United States
- In service since
- 1995
- Riders per year
- ≈ 12M
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Amtrak’s busiest train, over 12 million riders a year, racing the electrified Northeast Corridor at up to 125 mph without the Acela fare.
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 Transitous: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of 2151
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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