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Amtrak Long-Distance Trains

Performance for week ending March 31, 2019

 Daily performance

 Pct on-time arrival

 Overall avg arrival

 Avg arrival if late

 Monday, March 25

 24 %

 1 hour, 28 mins late

 1 hour, 55 mins late

 Tuesday, March 26

 36 %

 1 hour, 17 mins late

 2 hours, 1 min late

 Wednesday, March 27

 27 %

 1 hour, 8 mins late

 1 hour, 33 mins late

 Thursday, March 28

 25 %

 1 hour, 38 mins late

 2 hours, 11 mins late

 Friday, March 29

 41 %

 1 hour, 5 mins late

 1 hour, 50 mins late

 Saturday, March 30

39 %

 42 mins late

 1 hour, 8 mins late

 Sunday, March 31

 56 %

 49 mins late

 1 hour, 51 mins late

Thirty-five percent of Amtrak's named long-distance trains arrived at their scheduled final destination on time or earlier in the week ending March 31, 2019... The remaining trains, on average, arrived one hour and 48 minutes late.

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This Week's Performance of Individual Trains . . . .

Auto Train

California Zephyr (excludes trains truncated by flooding)

Capitol Limited

Cardinal

Carolinian

City of New Orleans (all trains truncated by flooding)

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 March 31, 2019)

 

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

 Train

 Pct On Time Arrival

 Auto Train

 72 %

 Maple Leaf

 72 %

 City of New Orleans

 68 %

 Vermonter

 68 %

 Silver Meteor

 43 %

 Cardinal

 41 %

 Carolinian

 41 %

 Palmetto

 38 %

 Southwest Chief

 38 %

 Coast Starlight

 34 %

 Empire Builder

 34 %

 Lake Shore Limited

 34 %

 Texas Eagle

 22 %

 Capitol Limited

 21 %

 Silver Star

 18 %

 California Zephyr

 17 %

 Sunset Limited

 13 %

 Crescent

  2 %

2019 Year-to-Date Standings - Overall Average Arrival

 Train

 Overall Average Arrival

 Maple Leaf

  8 mins late

 Vermonter

 13 mins late

 Auto Train

 18 mins late

 Palmetto

 23 mins late

 City of New Orleans

 24 mins late

 Silver Meteor

 24 mins late

 Carolinian

 24 mins late

 Lake Shore Limited

 42 mins late

 Capitol Limited

 59 mins late

 Southwest Chief

 1 hour, 2 mins late

 Coast Starlight

 1 hour, 6 mins late

 Silver Star

 1 hour, 6 mins late

 Cardinal

 1 hour, 8 mins late

 Texas Eagle

 1 hour, 17 mins late

 Sunset Limited

 2 hours, 10 mins late

 Empire Builder

 2 hours, 18 mins late

 Crescent

 2 hours, 44 mins late

 California Zephyr

 4 hours, 1 min late

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

 Train

 Average arrival if late

 Maple Leaf

 27 mins late

 Palmetto

 36 mins late

 Vermonter

 40 mins late

 Carolinian

 42 mins late

 Silver Meteor

 43 mins late

 Auto Train

 1 hour, 5 mins late

 Lake Shore Limited

 1 hour, 5 mins late

 City of New Orleans

 1 hour, 14 mins late

 Capitol Limited

 1 hour, 14 mins late

 Silver Star

 1 hour, 20 mins late

 Texas Eagle

 1 hour, 39 mins late

 Southwest Chief

 1 hour, 40 mins late

 Coast Starlight

 1 hour, 41 mins late

 Cardinal

 1 hour, 55 mins late

 Sunset Limited

 2 hours, 30 mins late

 Crescent

 2 hours, 47 mins late

 Empire Builder

 3 hours, 20 mins late

 California Zephyr

 4 hours, 51 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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