Scenic route
Pacific Surfliner
San Diego → San Luis Obispo · United States
View on the map →Wikipedia ↗Stations · 25
Heir to the 1938 San Diegan: surfboards ride free as double-deckers skim the sand at Del Mar and San Clemente.
Stations
- 0 kmSan Diego
- 5 kmOld Town Transit Center
- 41 kmSolana Beach
- 66 kmOceanside
- 112 kmSan Juan Capistrano
- 132 kmIrvine
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- 148 kmSanta Ana
- 155 kmAnaheim
- 164 kmFullerton +1
- 203 kmLos Angeles Union Station +3
- 212 kmGlendale
- 225 kmBurbank Airport–South +1
- 233 kmVan Nuys +1
- 249 kmChatsworth
- 261 kmSimi Valley +1
- 295 kmCamarillo
- 310 kmOxnard +1
- 326 kmVentura
- 352 kmCarpinteria
- 369 kmSanta Barbara +1
- 384 kmGoleta
- 478 kmLompoc–Surf
- 520 kmGuadalupe
- 539 kmGrover Beach
- 559 kmSan Luis Obispo +1
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. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.
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 Amtrak: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of the Pacific Surfliner to San Luis Obispo
- 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 Pacific Surfliner?
The Pacific Surfliner runs 565 km from San Diego to San Luis Obispo.
How long does the Pacific Surfliner take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 8 h 45 min for the 565 km. That is an average of 65 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 145 km/h.
Who runs the Pacific Surfliner?
Amtrak, with Surfliner bilevel cars.
How old is the Pacific Surfliner?
The line has been in service since 2000. 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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