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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