How long is long distance?

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In timetable hours, how long is long distance?

  • more than 8 hours?

    Votes: 18 32.1%
  • more than 16 hours?

    Votes: 19 33.9%
  • more than 24 hours?

    Votes: 7 12.5%
  • more than 36 hours

    Votes: 1 1.8%
  • by popular demand... simply overnight

    Votes: 11 19.6%

  • Total voters
    56
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I'm pretty sure it's any train with sleepers. For a while I was thinking low train numbers, but that's not necessarily it.

From strictly an operational and mechanical point of view, an intercity long distance train is a passenger train that provides service between large cities more than 125 miles apart and is not operated exclusively on Amtrak’s NEC.
I thought it was > 750 miles. The Carolinian is not defined as an LD train.
 
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