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Amtrak Long-Distance Trains

Performance for week ending February 23, 2020

 Daily performance

 Pct on-time arrival

 Overall avg arrival

 Avg arrival if late

 Monday, February 17

68 %

 22 mins late

 1 hour, 8 mins late

 Tuesday, February 18

50 %

 38 mins late

 1 hour, 17 mins late

 Wednesday, February 19

47 %

 47 mins late

 1 hour, 28 mins late

 Thursday, February 20

25 %

 1 hour, 2 mins late

 1 hour, 23 mins late

 Friday, February 21

44 %

 54 mins late

 1 hour, 38 mins late

 Saturday, February 22

51 %

 37 mins late

 1 hour, 15 mins late

 Sunday, February 23

42 %

 58 mins late

 1 hour, 39 mins late

Forty-seven percent of Amtrak's named long-distance trains arrived at their scheduled final destination on time or earlier in the week ending February 23, 2020... The remaining trains, on average, arrived one hour and 26 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

Silver Meteor

Silver Star

Southwest Chief

Sunset Limited

Texas Eagle

Vermonter

 

COMPOSITE - (Long-DistanceTrains, week ending February 23, 2020)

 

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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 terminal behind schedule, even by a minute, it is considered 'late.' Trains must arrive on time, or earlier, to be considered arriving 'on time.' The Bull Sheet considers that long-distance Amtrak 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 routinely reported by Amtrak.

Data only apply to final destination, not to intermediate stops. Also, they do not adjust for any time gained en route if the train left the originating station late, and no additional credit is given for trains that arrive at their destination in advance of schedule.

Runs that are truncated, annulled, terminated en route, or reported with incomplete or ambiguous data are excluded from the survey. Trains shown with 'insufficient data' are those with significant failures to complete their fully scheduled journey, resulting in misleading information for a comparable train-by-train weekly analysis. Runs that are completed during the week will still be considered in overall statistics.

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MULTI-WEEK PERFORMANCE:

 Week ending . . .

 Pct on-time arrival

 Overall avg arrival

 Avg arrival if late

 January 5, 2020

 52 %

 47 mins late

 1 hour, 37 mins late

 January 12, 2020

 52 %

 40 mins late

 1 hour, 23 mins late

 January 19, 2020

 58 %

 22 mins late

 52 mins late

 January 26, 2020

 62 %

 22 mins late

 56 mins late

 February 2, 2020

 60 %

 24 mins late

 59 mins late

 February 9, 2020

 49 %

 51 mins late

 1 hour, 39 mins late

 February 16, 2020

 48 %

 47 mins late

 1 hour, 30 mins late

 February 23, 2020

 47 %

 46 mins late

 1 hour, 26 mins late

 

 

 

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