Classic route
Piedmont
Raleigh → Charlotte · United States
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North Carolina’s home-grown corridor: the state owns the trains, a fleet of rebuilt 1960s streamliner cars, running four round trips a day.
Stations
- 1 kmRaleigh
- 14 kmCary
- 43 kmDurham
- 96 kmBurlington
- 130 kmGreensboro
- 155 kmHigh Point
- 210 kmSalisbury
- 235 kmKannapolis
- 278 kmCharlotte
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
- The 277 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 1901007 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 7 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Amtrak: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of the Piedmont to Raleigh
- 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 Piedmont?
The Piedmont runs 278 km from Raleigh to Charlotte.
How long does the Piedmont take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 3 h 10 min for the 278 km. That is an average of 88 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 127 km/h.
Who runs the Piedmont?
Amtrak and NCDOT, with NCDOT F59PH, rebuilt streamliner cars.
How old is the Piedmont?
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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