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Caltrain to Modify Schedule on Oct. 10
Caltrain will fine-tune its weekday schedule on Oct. 10, adding a few minutes to
selected trains to restore the rail system’s stellar on-time performance.
In addition, three southbound early evening Baby Bullet trains will depart San Francisco
about a half hour later than under the current schedule.
The new schedule is a mid-course correction for Caltrain, which had introduced a
96-train schedule in August that included 10 additional Baby Bullet express trains.
Some of Caltrain’s faster new trains are taking longer to load passengers than had been
expected when the schedule was designed, which has prompted the adjustments. The new
schedule will “tweak” departure times during the commute period by a few minutes to
restore Caltrain’s on-time performance.
The changes affect only the weekday peak-period, and timetables for connecting shuttles
will be adjusted as needed.
The main changes are as follows:
- Northbound morning trains will be adjusted by an average of four minutes, while
the change will be about three minutes for northbound afternoon trains.
- Train 189 will not serve the Tamien station but Tamien will be served by trains
285 and 191.
- Southbound afternoon trains will move by about four minutes. But the Baby Bullet
trains departing San Francisco at 4 p.m., 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. will depart 33 minutes
later.
This change is being made in order to facilitate on-time operations by better
positioning the Bullet trains within the overall mix of local and limited-stop
commute-hour trains.
The schedule changes can be viewed
on line
(PDF, 1.43 MB), and timetables will be on trains the first week of
October.
9/26/05
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