Scenic route
Pacific Surfliner
San Diego → San Luis Obispo · United States
Pacific Surfliner in pictures
Photographs by their authors, hosted on Wikimedia Commons · tap through for the licence
- Distance
- 565 km
- Fastest time
- 8 h 45 min
- Average speed
- 65 km/h
- Top speed
- 145 km/h
- Operator
- Amtrak
- Train
- Surfliner bilevel cars
- Countries
- United States
- In service since
- 2000
- Riders per year
- ≈ 2M
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Heir to the 1938 San Diegan: surfboards ride free as double-deckers skim the sand at Del Mar and San Clemente.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 2812898 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 30 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 8 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of 765
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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