Greenbush Line on the Commuter Rail (2024)

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The Greenbush Line opened for regular passenger service on October 31, 2007, with 12 round trips on weekdays and 8 on weekends.

Services depart every two hours, and operate every day. The journey takes approximately 1h 7m.

Also known as the Dinky, or the Princeton Junction and Back (PJ&B), the branch is served by special shuttle trains. Now running 2.7 mi (4.3 km) along a single track, it is the shortest scheduled commuter rail line in the United States. The run takes approximately 5 minutes in each direction.

The US has two high-speed trains, including the 125-mph Brightline and the 150-mph Amtrak Acela. Brightline rides along Florida's East Coast while the Acela runs along the US' Northeast Corridor.

As of 2020, Texas was the U.S. state with the largest railroad mileage, reaching over 10,400 miles.

A bold, new venture and a quantum leap in service.

Three years later, on July 31, 1993, MetroLink debuted its services with a three-day, fare-free introduction to the St. Louis region. Everyone had an opportunity to take a ride on the first light-rail system in the St. Louis region.

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Meanwhile, the commuter rail had more positive ratings — 42% rate it as good to excellent. The survey reflects responses from 1,000 residents in the 175 MBTA-served communities, and includes regular riders, former riders and non-riders.

No other area of the United States has as extensive a commuter rail network as the New York metropolitan region.

You can see the busiest stations are all along the Red Line. Harvard topped the list, followed close by South Station , and then Downtown Crossing . Next to each station are heatmaps showing entrances and exits to each station per-hour for weekdays and weekends/holidays.

The Long Island Rail Road is the busiest commuter railroad in North America, carrying approximately 200,000 customers each weekday on 947 daily trains.

South Station, officially The Governor Michael S. Dukakis Transportation Center at South Station, is the largest railroad station and intercity bus terminal in Greater Boston and New England's second-largest transportation center after Logan International Airport.

The Northeast Corridor is America's busiest rail line. Each day, its trains deliver 800,000 passengers to Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington and points in between.