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daybeers

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Amtrak posted a Service Alert yesterday noting changes to Northeast Regional and Acela schedules because of track improvements. Does anyone know more specifically what they're doing? It'll be easier to tell when they (hopefully) publish new timetables, but for now it seems some of the schedules have been lengthened, as the alert says.

Amtrak remains committed to improving the customer experience, safety and service reliability for its customers by modernizing and investing in our infrastructure. Beginning on Saturday, March 10, Amtrak is undertaking a new series of track improvements along the Northeast Corridor. Minor schedule adjustments will be made on Acela Express and Northeast Regional as the infrastructure work begins.

  • Most trains will operate with extended schedules to compensate for speed reductions and congestion caused by track work.
  • Scheduled departure and arrival times of both Acela Express and Northeast Regional trains may change by 3 to 15 minutes in both directions between Boston, New York and Washington, DC.
  • All Acela Express trains will depart Washington, DC, at ten minutes before the hour, rather than on the hour.
Additional minor adjustments to departure times and travel times for both Acela Express and Northeast Regional can be found on Amtrak.com and the Amtrak mobile app.
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This past week Amtrak sent me new eTickets with new times of my two upcoming reservations for the next few months: one of them is for June, so it looks like this will be in effect for a while.
 
daybeers said:
Amtrak posted a Service Alert yesterday noting changes to Northeast Regional and Acela schedules because of track improvements. Does anyone know more specifically what they're doing? It'll be easier to tell when they (hopefully) publish new timetables, but for now it seems some of the schedules have been lengthened, as the alert says.
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If I told you they were ramping up work on Hanson, undercutting, bringing out the TLM early, working on the cut and throw at Ragan while reconfiguring Brandy and Yard in addition to the current outage through NJ and moving to another stage in NYP, would that make it better for you?
 
Thirdrail7 said:
daybeers said:
Amtrak posted a Service Alert yesterday noting changes to Northeast Regional and Acela schedules because of track improvements. Does anyone know more specifically what they're doing? It'll be easier to tell when they (hopefully) publish new timetables, but for now it seems some of the schedules have been lengthened, as the alert says.
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If I told you they were ramping up work on Hanson, undercutting, bringing out the TLM early, working on the cut and throw at Ragan while reconfiguring Brandy and Yard in addition to the current outage through NJ and moving to another stage in NYP, would that make it better for you?
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Sure, thanks!
 
Lonestar648 said:
Track improvements are needed, so I just deal with the schedule changes. Rather have the upgrades even if the schedule has to temporarily change and lengthen.
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west point said:
At least Amtrak is trying to have realistic schedules
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I agree with both these statements!

Amtrak posted the new schedules to their website yesterday. If anyone is interested, I found a very helpful website which you can upload two PDF files to and compare them. It highlights the text which is different between the two, making it very useful for comparing timetables! https://draftable.com/compare
 

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