Amtrak Long-Distance Trains
Performance for April 2024
Forty (40) percent of Amtrak's named long-distance trains arrived at their scheduled final destination on time or earlier in April 2024... The remaining trains, on average, arrived one hour and 22 minutes late.
Date
Pct on-time arrival
Overall avg arrival
Avg arrival if late
Monday, April 1 43 %
32 mins late
55 mins late
Tuesday, April 2 46 %
33 mins late
1 hour late
Wednesday, April 3 29 %
54 mins late
1 hour, 15 mins late
Thursday, April 4 32 %
49 mins late
1 hour, 13 mins late
Friday, April 5 37 %
54 mins late
1 hour, 26 mins late
Saturday, April 6 37 %
36 mins late
57 mins late
Sunday, April 7 75 %
51 mins late
3 hours, 25 mins late
Monday, April 8 33 %
48 mins late
1 hour, 11 mins late
Tuesday, April 9 29 %
48 mins late
1 hour, 7 mins late
Wednesday, April 10 25 %
1 hour, 20 mins late
1 hour, 47 mins late
Thursday, April 11 35 %
1 hour, 27 mins late
2 hours, 15 mins late
Friday, April 12 24 %
1 hour, 27 mins late
1 hour, 54 mins late
Saturday, April 13 50 %
53 mins late
1 hour, 46 mins late
Sunday, April 14 31 %
45 mins late
1 hour, 5 mins late
Monday, April 15 39 %
1 hour, 9 mins late
1 hour, 53 mins late
Tuesday, April 16 39 %
58 mins late
1 hour, 34 mins late
Wednesday, April 17 36 %
46 mins late
1 hour, 11 mins late
Thursday, April 18 23 %
1 hour, 34 mins late
2 hours, 1 min late
Friday, April 19 43 %
38 mins late
1 hour, 7 mins late
Saturday, April 20 49 %
48 mins late
1 hour, 33 mins late
Sunday, April 21 56 %
25 mins late
57 mins late
Monday, April 22 50 %
26 mins late
52 mins late
Tuesday, April 23 37 %
36 mins late
58 mins late
Wednesday, April 24 39 %
35 mins late
57 mins late
Thursday, April 25 46 %
31 mins late
57 mins late
Friday, April 26 27 %
1 hour, 4 mins late
1 hour, 28 mins late
Saturday, April 27 47 %
49 mins late
1 hour, 32 mins late
Sunday, April 28 56 %
20 mins late
46 mins late
Monday, April 29 44 %
1 hour, 8 mins late
2 hours, 2 mins late
Tuesday, April 30 36 %
32 mins late
50 mins late
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Composite for Month 40 %
50 mins late
1 hour, 22 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, April 2024)
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Nine-year comparison for April . . .
9-year comparison
Pct on-time arrival
Overall avg arrival
Avg arrival if late
April 2016 44 %
36 mins late
1 hour, 4 mins late
April 2017 31 %
52 mins late
1 hour, 16 mins late
April 2018 37 %
47 mins late
1 hour, 15 mins late
April 2019 37 %
53 mins late
1 hour, 24 mins late
April 2020 68 %
20 mins late
1 hour late
April 2021 42 %
39 mins late
1 hour, 7 mins late
April 2022 29 %
59 mins late
1 hour, 24 mins late
April 2023 39 %
49 mins late
1 hour, 20 mins late
April 2024 40 %
50 mins late
1 hour, 22 mins late
9-year April average 41 %
45 mins late
1 hour, 15 mins late
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Year-to-Date Standings - Percentage On-Time Arrival
Train |
Pct on-time arrival |
| City of New Orleans | 81 % |
| Sunset Limited | 65 % |
| Lake Shore Limited | 64 % |
| Texas Eagle | 63 % |
| Capitol Limited | 59 % |
| Empire Builder | 50 % |
| Vermonter | 48 % |
| Coast Starlight | 44 % |
| Crescent | 44 % |
| Maple Leaf | 44 % |
| Auto Train | 43 % |
| Palmetto | 43 % |
| California Zephyr | 38 % |
| Silver Meteor | 38 % |
| .Cardinal | 35 % |
| Silver Star | 34 % |
| Carolinian | 29 % |
| Southwest Chief | 21 % |
Year-to-Date Standings - Overall Average Arrival
Train |
Overall avg arrival |
| Maple Leaf | 10 mins late |
| Vermonter | 14 mins late |
| Lake Shore Limited | 23 mins late |
| Palmetto | 23 mins late |
| Capitol Limited | 24 mins late |
| City of New Orleans | 26 mins late |
| Texas Eagle | 31 mins late |
| Carolinian | 33 mins late |
| Crescent | 35 mins late |
| Cardinal | 42 mins late |
| Silver Meteor | 43 mins late |
| Sunset Limited | 44 mins late |
| Empire Builder | 45 mins late |
| Auto Train | 47 mins late |
| Silver Star | 50 mins late |
| Coast Starlight | 55 mins late |
| California Zephyr | 1 hour, 38 mins late |
| Southwest Chief | 1 hour, 41 mins late |
Year-to-Date Standings - Average Arrival When Late
Train
Avg arrival when late
Maple Leaf 18 mins late
Vermonter 27 mins late
Palmetto 41 mins late
Carolinian 47 mins late
Capitol Limited 58 mins late
Crescent 1 hour, 2 mins late
Lake Shore Limited 1 hour, 3 mins late
Cardinal 1 hour, 5 mins late
Silver Meteor 1 hour, 10 mins late
Silver Star 1 hour, 17 mins late
Auto Train 1 hour, 22 mins late
.Texas Eagle 1 hour, 25 mins late
Empire Builder 1 hour, 29 mins late
Coast Starlight 1 hour, 38 mins late
Sunset Limited 2 hours, 5 mins late
Southwest Chief 2 hours, 9 mins late
City of New Orleans 2 hours, 20 mins late
California Zephyr 2 hours, 39 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 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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