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Amtrak Long-Distance Trains

Performance for week ending December 17, 2017

 Daily performance

 Pct on-time arrival

 Overall avg arrival

 Avg arrival if late

 Monday, December 11

 50 %

 37 mins late

 1 hour, 14 mins late

 Tuesday, December 12

 36 %

 49 mins late

 1 hour, 17 mins late

 Wednesday, December 13

 38 %

 32 mins late

 52 mins late

 Thursday, December 14

 18 %

 1 hour, 22 mins late

 1 hour, 40 mins late

 Friday, December 15

 29 %

 1 hour, 4 mins late

 1 hour, 30 mins late

 Saturday, December 16

 44 %

 41 mins late

 1 hour, 13 mins late

 Sunday, December 17

 44 %

 48 mins late

 1 hour, 26 mins late

Thirty-seven percent of Amtrak's named long-distance trains arrived at their final destination on time or earlier in the week ending December 17, 2017. The remaining 63 percent, on average, arrived one hour and 20 minutes late.

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Performance of Individual Trains . . . .

Auto Train

California Zephyr

Capitol Limited

Cardinal

Carolinian

City of New Orleans

Coast Starlight

Crescent

Empire Builder

Lake Shore Limited

Maple Leaf

Palmetto

Silver Meteor

Silver Star

Southwest Chief

Sunset Limited

Texas Eagle

Vermonter

 

COMPOSITE - (Long-DistanceTrains, week ending December 17, 2017)

 

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ABOUT THESE REPORTS:

The Bull Sheet calculates arrival performance at final destination of Amtrak's named long-distance trains. The data are based upon the reported arrival times of each of the affected trains, and there is no grace allowance for minimal lateness. If a train arrives at its final destination behind schedule, even by a minute, it is considered 'late.' The Bull Sheet considers that long-distance trains have sufficient padding in their schedule to offset typical en route delays, and it is not necessary to apply a grace allowance on top of that padding to bolster on time reporting. Accordingly, these reports represent a more realistic analysis than what is reported by Amtrak, which routinely reports nominally-late trains, within certain parameters, as arriving on time.

 

 

 

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