Passenger Trains > New Pacific Surfliner Schedule for next Monday.

They are finally adding a 13th round trip Between LA and San Diego

They are bringing back Trains 578 and 593.
Southbound Train 578 will depart LA at 1:15pm and arrive into San Diego around 4:12pm
They are going to renumber Current Train 591 to 593. And will keep the current schedule.
The new train 591 will depart San Diego at 5:25pm and will get to LA by 8:35 pm.

The First link has the info. Also for those who travel to and from Fullerton. 
There is a little info on which trains will be using which tracks at the station.

New Pacific Surfliner Timetable beginning Oct 14th.

And this second link has the actually timetable.

Pacific Surfliner Timetable Effective Oct 14th


 

Jerry Martin
Los Angeles, CA
Central Coast Railroad Festival

Right after completion of the last piece of the third main on the BNSF portion of Fullerton to LA.

Taken at face value, the new schedule indicates that the late train to SLO has connecting bus service to "San Jose/San Franciso/Oakland", which would be a welcome change – right now, that bus only goes as far as Paso Robles. Is that correct?

As far as it goes, the new format (I'm assuming that's what it is) is easier to read than the old one. But there's no info for Thuway buses beyond the San Diego-SLO corridor, except for the bus to Indio. It shows which trains have connecting bus service to/from Oakland, but doesn't show the schedule. The link to Thruway bus info on the website doesn't have schedules either, although it hasn't been updated since April.

The old one had a separate section for "California Coastal Routes", which was useful once you figured out how to use it. But it could also be confusing. If north/south Thruway schedules were added, it would be more user friendly than the old format.

One can hope the Coastal Thruway schedule gets added. Its most useful.

The night bus from San Diego  5811 bus is not shown either. Nor the night buses  Los Angeles to San Diego.

Course the night buses can only be used if a connecting rail service is used, so Surfliner folks are not concerned with that.

But we must remember that the Coastal and San Joaquin schedules are paid for by a different railroad !
The night buses are part of the San Joaquin service,  so you go to their schedules.
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Its no longer Amtrak, but three joint powers, Surfliner - San Joaquin - Capitol. that is involved with the Coastal Thruway schedule.

Oh, forgot,  its now Amtrak Connections, not Thruway. That's old fashion.

To me, the term Connection does not mean guaranteed service.
Local Transit may be a connection, the Thruway was a guaranteed.

I go back to the Santa Fe "Coordinated Rail-Bus" days,  A few may remember this term.
That too showed that it was guaranteed.

OR  remember the Caltrains California Timetable that showed ALL the rail and bus timetables. ?
 



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/05/19 13:10 by mundo.

The  conventional Surfliner Timetable is now ready for downloading on the Amtrak Web Site.
This includes the Coastal services.

A total of 10 consists are used.

9  bi-level  six cars
1 low level 7 cars + bag/cabbage car.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/10/19 09:19 by mundo.

Thanks! No late bus northbound, but that's the way it's been. Still enough options.