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Amtrak Long-Distance Trains

Performance for week ending April 21, 2019

 Daily performance

 Pct on-time arrival

 Overall avg arrival

 Avg arrival if late

 Monday, April 15

 29 %

 48 mins late

 1 hour, 8 mins late

 Tuesday, April 16

 58 %

 21 mins late

 50 mins late

 Wednesday, April 17

 32 %

 49 mins late

 1 hour, 13 mins late

 Thursday, April 18

 30 %

 52 mins late

 1 hour, 15 mins late

 Friday, April 19

 27 %

 1 hour, 2 mins late

 1 hour, 25 mins late

 Saturday, April 20

31 %

 1 hour, 8 mins late

 1 hour, 39 mins late

 Sunday, April 21

 53 %

 31 mins late

 1 hour, 7 mins late

Thirty-seven percent of Amtrak's named long-distance trains arrived at their scheduled final destination on time or earlier in the week ending April 21, 2019... The remaining trains, on average, arrived one hour and 16 minutes late.

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This Week's 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 (excludes trains truncated by trackwork)

Silver Meteor

Silver Star

Southwest Chief

Sunset Limited

Texas Eagle

Vermonter

 

COMPOSITE - (Long-DistanceTrains, week ending April 21, 2019)

 

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2019 Year-to-Date Standings - Percentage On-Time Arrival

 Train

 Pct On Time Arrival

 Maple Leaf

 74 %

 Auto Train

 71 %

 City of New Orleans

 69 %

 Vermonter

 67 %

 Silver Meteor

 44 %

 Carolinian

 42 %

 Palmetto

 40 %

 Southwest Chief

 39 %

 Cardinal

 37 %

 Empire Builder

 35 %

 Lake Shore Limited

 35 %

 Coast Starlight

 31 %

 Capitol Limited

 21 %

 Texas Eagle

 20 %

 Silver Star

 19 %

 California Zephyr

 18 %

 Sunset Limited

 10 %

 Crescent

  1 %

2019 Year-to-Date Standings - Overall Average Arrival

 Train

 Overall Average Arrival

 Maple Leaf

  7 mins late

 Vermonter

 11 mins late

 Auto Train

 20 mins late

 Palmetto

 21 mins late

 City of New Orleans

 26 mins late

 Carolinian

 26 mins late

 Silver Meteor

 36 mins late

 Lake Shore Limited

 40 mins late

 Southwest Chief

 56 mins late

 Capitol Limited

 58 mins late

 Silver Star

 1 hour, 1 min late

 Coast Starlight

 1 hour, 4 mins late

 Cardinal

 1 hour, 7 mins late

 Texas Eagle

 1 hour, 28 mins late

 Empire Builder

 2 hours, 3 mins late

 Sunset Limited

 2 hours, 24 mins late

 Crescent

 2 hours, 40 mins late

 California Zephyr

 3 hours, 30 mins late

2019 Year-to-Date Standings - Average Arrival if Late

 Train

 Average arrival if late

 Maple Leaf

 25 mins late

 Vermonter

 33 mins late

 Palmetto

 35 mins late

 Carolinian

 46 mins late

 Lake Shore Limited

 1 hour, 1 min late

 Silver Meteor

 1 hour, 3 mins late

 Auto Train

 1 hour, 10 mins late

 Capitol Limited

 1 hour, 13 mins late

 Silver Star

 1 hour, 15 mins late

 City of New Orleans

 1 hour, 24 mins late

 Southwest Chief

 1 hour, 32 mins late

 Coast Starlight

 1 hour, 33 mins late

 Cardinal

 1 hour, 47 mins late

 Texas Eagle

 1 hour, 50 mins late

 Sunset Limited

 2 hours, 41 mins late

 Crescent

 2 hours, 42 mins late

 Empire Builder

 3 hours, 8 mins late

 California Zephyr

 4 hours, 18 mins late

 

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 terminal 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 offer a more realistic analysis than what is reported by Amtrak. Data only apply to final destination, not to intermediate stops.

(Trains that are truncated, annulled, terminated en route, or reported with incomplete or ambiguous data are excluded from the survey.)

 

 

 

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