Classic route
Vermonter
Washington → St. Albans · United States
One of Amtrak’s longest daytime runs; trains reverse at Springfield to swing up the Connecticut River valley into Vermont’s Green Mountains.
- Distance
- 983 km
- Fastest time
- 12 h 40 min
- Average speed
- 78 km/h
- Top speed
- 201 km/h
Stations
- 0 kmWashington Union Station +8
- 14 kmNew Carrollton +2
- 47 kmBWI Thurgood Marshall Airport +3
- 64 kmBaltimore Penn Station +7
- 174 kmWilmington +7
- 215 kmPhiladelphia 30th Street Station +8
Show 19 more stations
- 267 kmTrenton +7
- 344 kmNewark Penn Station +8
- 360 kmNew York Penn Station +12
- 418 kmStamford +3
- 454 kmBridgeport +1
- 481 kmNew Haven Union Station +3
- 481 kmNew Haven-State Street
- 511 kmMeriden
- 539 kmHartford
- 549 kmWindsor
- 556 kmWindsor Locks
- 579 kmSpringfield +1
- 591 kmHolyoke
- 606 kmNorthampton
- 637 kmGreenfield
- 676 kmBrattleboro
- 713 kmBellows Falls
- 741 kmClaremont
- 776 kmWhite River Junction
- 826 kmRandolph
- 874 kmMontpelier
- 890 kmWaterbury-Stowe
- 925 kmEssex Junction
- 963 kmSt. Albans
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 1359387: the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 58 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 17 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Amtrak: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of the Vermonter to Washington
- 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 Vermonter?
The Vermonter runs 983 km from Washington to St. Albans.
How long does the Vermonter take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 12 h 40 min for the 983 km. That is an average of 78 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 201 km/h.
Who runs the Vermonter?
Amtrak, with Amfleet, GE P42DC.
How old is the Vermonter?
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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