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Amtrak Long-Distance Trains

Performance for week ending April 19, 2020

 Daily performance

 Pct on-time arrival

 Overall avg arrival

 Avg arrival if late

 Monday, April 13

57 %

53 mins late

 2 hours, 2 mins late

 Tuesday, April 14

71 %

37 mins late

 2 hours, 8 mins late

 Wednesday, April 15

58 %

 30 mins late

 1 hour. 10 mins late

 Thursday, April 16

60 %

 20 mins late

 50 mins late

 Friday, April 17

64 %

 10 mins late

 29 mins late

 Saturday, April 18

73 %

 4 mins late

 13 mins late

 Sunday, April 19

85 %

 16 mins late

 1 hour, 46 mins late

Sixty-seven percent of Amtrak's named long-distance trains arrived at their scheduled final destination on time or earlier in the week ending April 19, 2020... The remaining trains, on average, arrived one hour and 11 minutes late.

Only 72 percent of the runs ordinarily included in the survey this week actually operated through from origin to destination. The remaining 28 percent were either truncated or failed to operate at all. Most of this omission is due to the conoravirus outbreak. Only those trains that ran their full scheduled route are calculated in this survey.

For 2020 year-to-date, 55 percent of Amtrak's named long-distance trains arrived at their scheduled final destination on time or earlier. The remaining trains, on average, arrived one hour and 18 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 [cross-border traffic suspended]

Palmetto

Silver Meteor

Silver Star

Southwest Chief

Sunset Limited

Texas Eagle

Vermonter

 

COMPOSITE - (Long-DistanceTrains, week ending April 19, 2020)

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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

 March 1, 2020

 53 %

 33 mins late

 1 hour, 11 mins late

 March 8, 2020

 53 %

 32 mins late

 1 hour, 9 mins late

 March 15, 2020

 55 %

 39 mins late

 1 hour, 27 mins late

 March 22, 2020

 52 %

 41 mins late

 1 hour, 25 mins late

 March 29, 2020

 55 %

 40 mins late

 1 hour, 28 mins late

 April 5, 2020

 63 %

 22 mins late

 1 hour, 1 min late

 April 12, 2020

 68 %

 25 mins late

 1 hour, 18 mins late

 April 19, 2020

 67 %

 23 mins late

 1 hour, 11 mins late

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2020 Year-to-Date Standings - Percentage On-Time Arrival

 Train

 Pct On Time Arrival

 City of New Orleans

 90 %

 Maple Leaf

 78 %

 Empire Builder

 68 %

 Vermonter

 67 %

 Southwest Chief

 66 %

 Carolinian

 64 %

 Silver Star

 64 %

 Coast Starlight

 63 %

 Auto Train

 62 %

 Silver Meteor

 61 %

 California Zephyr

 56 %

 Cardinal

 56 %

 Lake Shore Limited

 50 %

 Palmetto

 41 %

 Capitol Limited

 39 %

 Texas Eagle

 30 %

 Sunset Limited

  18 %

 Crescent

  7 %

2020 Year-to-Date Standings - Overall Average Arrival

 Train

 Overall Average Arrival

 Maple Leaf

 3 mins late

 Vermonter

 4 mins late

 City of New Orleans

 6 mins late

 Lake Shore Limited

 17 mins late

 Carolinian

 18 mins late

 Coast Starlight

 19 mins late

 Palmetto

 20 mins late

 Silver Star

 23 mins late

 Silver Meteor

 24 mins late

 Capitol Limited

 29 mins late

 Southwest Chief

 34 mins late

 Cardinal

 34 mins late

 Auto Train

 37 mins late

 Empire Builder

 39 mins late

 California Zephyr

 53 mins late

 Texas Eagle

 1 hour, 2 mins late

 Crescent

 2 hours, 4 mins late

 Sunset Limited

 2 hours, 17 mins late

2020 Year-to-Date Standings - Average Arrival if Late

 Train

 Average arrival if late

 Vermonter

 12 mins late

 Maple Leaf

 14 mins late

 Palmetto

 34 mins late

 Lake Shore Limited

 35 mins late

 Capitol Limited

 47 mins late

 Carolinian

 48 mins late

 Coast Starlight

 52 mins late

 Silver Meteor

 1 hour, 3 mins late

 Silver Star

 1 hour, 4 mins late

 City of New Orleans

 1 hour, 5 mins late

 Cardinal

 1 hour, 18 mins late

 Texas Eagle

 1 hour, 27 mins late

 Southwest Chief

 1 hour, 39 mins late

 Auto Train

 1 hour, 39 mins late

 Empire Builder

 2 hours late

 California Zephyr

 2 hours, 1 min late

 Crescent

 2 hours, 13 mins late

 Sunset Limited

 2 hours, 47 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.' 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 stations. Also, they do not adjust for any time gained en route if the train left the originating station late and then gained time, 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.

 

 

 

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