How to find intermediate stops
 

I'm considering taking a Northeast Regional train to Boston from NYC and want to find the intermediate stops along the way. Yet the Amtrak website doesn't provide that info — not even a PDF of the Northeast Corridor between NYP and BOS early in the morning. I found a PDF for New York south to VA but not north.

I'm looking at Train #190 on a Thursday but I want to know where the intermediate stops are. The Deutsche Bahn, for example, can provide intermediate stop info in multiple languages but Amtrak can't do it in just one? :confused:

It's in the schedule:

http://www.amtrak.com/train-schedules-timetables

Looks like:
NYP, Stamford, New Haven, Old Saybrook, New London, Kingston, Providence, Rte 128, Boston

Another source is Dixieland Software.

http://98.69.155.59/scripts/archivef...3&seltrain=190

The url is pretty self-explanatory.

The base site is: http://dixielandsoftware.net/Amtrak/status/StatusMaps/

Amtrak's schedule is at: http://www.amtrak.com/ccurl/141/170/...e-011215,0.pdf

Thanks! I guess it would never occur to Amtrak to put that information in the reservation area. That PDF worked at least for the full Amtrak system, not the smaller Northeast Corridor schedule between NY and Boston.

Funny, when I plugged in the information and then hit "find schedules", it still didn't give me an option to look at intermediate stops by hyperlinking the train number for example.

How to find intermediate stops
 

The only way is to look at the Pdf's linked above. Once you get to the station though you can pick up a paper copy of those exact timetables to track your progress.

What exactly are you looking for? The Amtrak link I posted above does show the NEC2 schedule that includes 190. It shows all the stops along the way (as does the DixielandSoftware link). Their Amtrak Schedules page seems to be a good place to expect this data.

Like other national rail websites I've used, I was looking to see the intermediate stops on the same page in which I was selecting the trains for my itinerary.

Ok, everyone has their own design thoughts...

Now you know how to see what you want, just not how you want to see it.

Amtrak has also added a planning map at

http://www.amtrak.com/travelplanningmap

You have to zoom in a bit and poke around, but it works

Though I prefer that old fashioned thing called a time table.

BTW, some of the early plane schedules read like rr ones !!!

but that was when baud rate applied to just telegraphs


Bob H

Even Greyhound lists all intermediate stops within their booking engine. Yet ironically, their clunky frame-based timetable and PDF route map are buried deep in the site. Simply bizarre.

You can start your planning at http://www.amtrak.com/travelplanningmap work your way up to a fare and booking from there.

Unfortunately Amtrak rolls along by itself, still struggling to get it's trains to arrive the same day of schedule.

Then the big one, hiring engineers that can keep Amtrak on-track! (106mph is way too fast for Amtrak's [semi] "permanent way"!!)

Please lower your expectations - enjoy the features of Amtrak that function during your Amtrak "experience" (the only guarantee I will promise you).

Happy tracks!! :D

Like others have said above, Amtrak chooses not to provide the intermediate stop information while other national railways do at the time of route selection.

I'll have to do just that. I've been assuming that Amtrak would have similar intermediate stop information as the Deutsche Bahn and the UK's First Great Western Rail provide when you select your itinerary. They get my business more than Amtrak does. :p I definitely will have to lower my expectations.

Thanks everybody.

You need to book a ticket on Trenitalia, Eurostar, TGV, AVE or Thalys and then adjust your assumptions accordingly. :)

Well, taking your word for it, the Italians, the French, and joint nation Thalys crew will need to catch up with the DB, the Swiss Rail (SBB), and the 4 British rail companies I've taken that provide intermediate stop information when selecting an itinerary. :)