WASHINGTON — Citing “forecasted severe weather conditions,” Amtrak has announced these cancellations and schedule changes in the northeast beginning later today (Tuesday, March 14).
The Amtrak Downeaster website indicates that northbound train No. 689, scheduled to depart Boston at 10:30 p.m., and southbound train No. 688, scheduled to depart Brunswick, Maine, at 5:45 p.m., are cancelled. Cancelled on Wednesday are northbound No. 681, scheduled to depart Boston at 8:50 a.m., and southbound No. 680, scheduled to depart Brunswick at 4:30 a.m.
Meanwhile, according to an alert on the Amtrak website, trains 448 and 449, the Boston section of the Lake Shore Limited, are cancelled today between Albany, N.Y., and Boston.
In other changes , the following northbound trains are now scheduled to terminate in New York today rather than continuing to Boston: Acela No. 2160, scheduled to leave Washington at 10 a.m.; Acela No. 2164, scheduled to depart Washington, D.C., at noon; Acela No. 2168, a 2 p.m. departure from Washington; Northeast Regional No. 86, a 5:35 a.m. departure from Richmond, Va.; and No. 174, a 5:39 a.m. departure from Newport News, Va.
The following southbound trains will now originate in New York rather than Boston: Acela No. 2165, scheduled to leave Boston at 12:10 p.m., now departing New York Penn at 4 p.m.; Acela No. 2167, slated to depart Boston at 1:05 p.m., now originating at Penn at 5 p.m.; and Acela No. 2169, scheduled to leave Boston at 2 p.m., now starting in New York at 6 p.m. Also affected are Northeast Regional No. 173, which usually departs Boston at 11:10 a.m. and now originates in New York at 3:35 p.m., and No. 137, which normally originates in Boston at 1:50 p.m. and now will start in New York at 6:25 p.m.
The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Storm Warning for portions of central, eastern, and western Massachusetts from 8 p.m. Monday through 8 a.m. Wednesday, calling for snow accumulation of 7 to 18 inches with winds up to 45 mph, and warns travel “could be very difficult to impossible.”
Watch the Amtrak website and NEC Twitter feed for updates on other schedule changes.
— Updated at 7:20 a.m. CDT to include Lake Shore Limited Boston section, additional Acela.
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