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Metropark is a station along the Northeast Corridor, located at the rail line's intersection with the Garden State Parkway. The line is served by Amtrak and NJ Transit trains.  Services Car #1340, an Arrow on the 1:48 PM train.   Both Amtrak and NJ Transit trains stop here.    Amtrak   Acela - This is essentially an express service that runs from Boston South Station to DC Union Station. Certain segments of it run at 160 miles per hour, making it a mixed traffic high speed rail route. Most of the time the Acela runs once an hour.  Carolinian - This train runs from New York City to Charlotte, North Carolina via DC, Richmond, and Raleigh. The Carolinan runs one round trip a day.  Crescent -  This train runs from Bew York City to New Orleans via Charlottesville, Charlotte, Atlanta, and Birmingham. Crescent trains run once a day.  Keystone Service -   This train runs from New York City to Harrisburg, PA via Philadelphia. Between Philade...

Newark is a station on the Northeast Corridor rail line located at the rail line's intersection with S College Avenue in Newark, Delaware. Newark station is the terminus for the SEPTA Wilmington-Newark Line.  History The old station building, now a museum. In 1877, the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Rail Road built the old Newark, DE station. This station served as the station for Newark service along the Northeast Corridor for over a century afterwards. Newark has been part of SEPTA's network since 1989, when the Wilmington line was restored to its past length and then extended. In 2018, the station was rebuilt, but the platforms were not. Services Newark currently has two main rail services that stop at the station. One of these is the Amtrak Northeast Regional, of which the variants 84, 87, 120, 124, 134, 152, 156, 184, 187, and 193 all stop at Newark. Despite all of these variants, Newark still usually only gets 2-4 trains per da...

Windsor Locks is a station along the New Haven-Springfield line, a line that has services ran on it by Amtrak and ctTransit.  History The first Windso r Locks station was opened in 1839 as part of the Hartford and New Haven Railroad.  The station was rebuilt in 1875, and the old station building still remains. In the 1970s, the entire Springfield line was bought out by Amtrak. The station was rebuilt by Amtrak in 1981 in its current site.    A new station is being built close to the original station, and it's expected to solve most of the problems this station has.      Services    These services run to Windsor Locks: Hartford Line:  This is a commuter rail service ran by ctRail and Amtrak between New Haven, Hartford, and Springfield, MA. 7 round trips a day run on this service, with some being Amtrak trains and some being ctRail trains Northeast Regional (Springfield Branch):  About two or so round trips a day of the no...