Expanded North-South Rail Service from Springfield to Begin in June 2019
MASSLIVE (June 12, 2018) – About a year from now, travelers will be able to leave Greenfield on a morning train, make it to Manhattan’s Grand Central Terminal in 4 hours, 15 minutes and be assured that there’ll be a night train home that same day.
The commonwealth of Massachusetts has an agreement with Connecticut authorities and Amtrak to provide on a pilot basis two extended daily CT rail trains from Springfield with stops in Holyoke, Northampton and Greenfield.
One train will run in the morning and one later in the day — both north and south — on the Knowledge Corridor line paralleling the Connecticut River.
The only train traveling north of Springfield now is Amtrak’s Vermonter, which runs once a day in each direction.
