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.
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.
I don’t believe that any catenary was proposed. Am I wrong on this assumption?
No…but it should have been.
I don’t see any catenary. Work is not done yet.
Does anyone know how much single track remains on the Springfield, MA-New Haven, CT line?