Amtrak Long-Distance Trains
Performance for January 2023
Fifty-two percent of Amtrak's named long-distance trains arrived at their scheduled final destination on time or earlier in January 2023... The remaining trains, on average, arrived one hour and 39 minutes late.
Date
Pct on-time arrival
Overall avg arrival
Avg arrival if late
Sunday, January 1 57 %
51 mins late
1 hour, 59 mins late
Monday, January 2 65 %
43 mins late
2 hours, 1 min late
Tuesday, January 3 59 %
1 hour, 8 mins late
2 hours, 46 mins late
Wednesday, January 4 48 %
1 hour, 3 mins late
2 hours, 24 mins late
Thursday, January 5 39 %
58 mins late
1 hour, 35 mins late
Friday, January 6 59 %
34 mins late
1 hour, 23 mins late
Saturday, January 7 48 %
43 mins late
1 hour, 24 mins late
Sunday, January 8 59 %
34 mins late
1 hour, 24 mins late
Monday, January 9 48 %
24 mins late
47 mins late
Tuesday, January 10 54 %
1 hour, 29 mins late
3 hours, 14 mins late
Wednesday, January 11 60 %
38 mins late
1 hour, 36 mins late
Thursday, January 12 60 %
21 mins late
52 mins late
Friday, January 13 47 %
30 mins late
56 mins late
Saturday, January 14 58 %
50 mins late
1 hour, 58 mins late
Sunday, January 15 53 %
41 mins late
1 hour, 27 mins late
Monday, January 16 48 %
1 hour, 18 mins late
2 hours, 31 mins late
Tuesday, January 17 65 %
28 mins late
1 hour, 20 mins late
Wednesday, January 18 41 %
1 hour, 6 mins late
1 hour, 51 mins late
Thursday, January 19 50 %
37 mins late
1 hour, 15 mins late
Friday, January 20 57 %
52 mins late
2 hours late
Saturday, January 21 57 %
22 mins late
51 mins late
Sunday, January 22 48 %
56 mins late
1 hour, 48 mins late
Monday, January 23 43 %
1 hour, 11 mins late
2 hours, 4 mins late
Tuesday, January 24 34 %
1 hour, 32 mins late
2 hours, 19 mins late
Wednesday, January 25 45 %
1 hour late
1 hour, 50 mins late
Thursday, January 26 63 %
17 mins late
47 mins late
Friday, January 27 61 %
24 mins late
1 hour, 1 min late
Saturday, January 28 38 %
27 mins late
44 mins late
Sunday, January 29 65 %
50 mins late
2 hours, 21 mins late
Monday, January 30 45 %
1 hour, 2 mins late
1 hour, 54 mins late
Tuesday, January 31 38 %
51 mins late
1 hour, 23 mins late
Composite for Month 52 %
48 mins late
1 hour, 39 mins late
Nine-year comparison for January . . .
9-year comparison |
Pct on-time arrival |
Overall avg arrival |
Avg arrival if late |
January 2015 | 52 % |
37 mins late |
1 hour, 18 mins late |
January 2016 | 35 % |
54 mins late |
1 hour, 23 mins late |
January 2017 | 35 % |
1 hour late |
1 hour, 32 mins late |
January 2018 | 37 % |
59 mins late |
1 hour, 33 mins late |
January 2019 | 43 % |
39 mins late |
1 hour, 9 mins late |
January 2020 | 64 % |
25 mins late |
1 hour, 10 mins late |
January 2021 | 59 % |
28 mins late |
1 hour, 9 mins late |
January 2022 | 44 % |
58 mins late |
1 hour, 44 mins late |
January 2023 | 52 % |
48 mins late |
1 hour, 39 mins late |
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This Month'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, January 2023)
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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.' 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 reported by Amtrak. (Data only apply to final destination, not to intermediate stops.)
(Trains that are truncated, annulled, originated or terminated en route, or reported with incomplete or ambiguous data are excluded from the survey.)
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