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With work completed, full rail service to resume on Hartford-Springfield, Mass route

By Trains Staff | November 3, 2024

Five round trips of Amtrak, CTrail service to be restored

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Fifty-seven year-old Amtrak cab control car coach No. 9633 is on the head end of train No. 461 at Windsor Locks, Conn., Oct. 27, 2024. Amtrak and CTrail trains will resume full service between Hartford, Conn., and Springfield, Mass., on Monday, Nov. 4, following five months of weekday midday bus substitutions to allow trackwork. Scott A. Hartley

HARTFORD, Conn. — More than five months of midday bus substitutions on the Hartford-Springfield, Mass., route served by Amtrak and CTrail trains are set to end on Monday, Nov. 4, following the completion of several maintenance projects.

An alert on the CTrail website says 10 five round trips — two of Amtrak trains and three operated by CTrail — will resume operation. The revised full schedule is available here; it include some adjustments from those before the work began.

The bus substitutions began in May to allow for work including construction of a new station at Windsor Locks, Conn., featuring high-level platforms and ADA-accessible features; installation of new interlockings, and grade-crossing improvements. That station will open in 2025.

6 thoughts on “With work completed, full rail service to resume on Hartford-Springfield, Mass route

  1. Still single track in the picture. The new schedules certainly are not memory type schedules. Riders who will use this route with varying different departure times will need to keep schedule handy. The connecting arrival times at GCT and NYP are handy.

    suppose that memory schedules are not possible until whole route is 2 main tracks with Hartford station also 2 main tracks.

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