New Pacific Surfliner timetable effective Oct. 25

[ParanoidAndroid]

New Pacific Surfliner timetables effective October 25th. Amtrak hasn't published their's yet so I made my own by searching Amtrak's digital schedules tool.

Several interesting things
- Trains per day are 10 SAN-LAX, 4 LAX-GTA, 2 GTA-SLO (each 1 more than now), compared to 13, 5, 2 pre-COVID
- A few renumberings
- Almost all trains are synchronized to the hour
- 770 and 784 skip Carpinteria, but all northbounds stop there
- 774 operates 30-45 mins earlier SLO-LAX
- 782 replaced by 784
- 794 ends at LA and 594 starts after it arrives, but booking a connection without multi-city isn't possible at the moment. I'd bet that they'll change this later.
- 765 doesn't have a connecting bus going north
- 794 has a connecting bus but it's the one from Hanford/Visalia
- Downtown Lompoc's bus stop (LOM) isn't served anymore (previously served by 2 buses/day connecting to/from 767 and 782)

Southbound


Northbound

 

[trainman74]

Thanks for putting this together! Hopefully they can add more trains to get those 3-hour gaps filled in eventually.

 

[Cal]

Thanks for this! Not sure how I missed it. The Surfline should be hourly, at least at peak times. Why they put the three hour gaps in the evening is beyond me

Edit: mind if I share your timetable with some people?

 

[ParanoidAndroid]

Thanks for this! Not sure how I missed it. The Surfline should be hourly, at least at peak times. Why they put the three hour gaps in the evening is beyond me

Edit: mind if I share your timetable with some people?

Sure that's fine. Couple more things I found -
- 765 actually does have a connecting bus to the bay area, you just can't book a connection to it yet
- 794 does have a connecting bus from the bay area
- The 794 to 594 connection at LAX is now bookable, but they're still separate trains (unlike the old 796)
- 794 operates up to 15 minutes earlier from the timetable up there - they changed it right after I made it, and I can't edit it now

I found out about this through Metrolink's timetable change, not through Amtrak. Amtrak doesn't publish pdf timetables anymore and the Pacific Surfliner website doesn't say anything about this yet.

 

[TinCan782]

Related to the Pacific Surfliner, here is Metrolink's upcoming October 25 timetable
Like previous timetables, Metrolink also shows Pacific Surfliner on the Ventura and Orange County Lines for the "Rail2Rail" program.
https://metrolinktrains.com/globalassets/schedules/october-25-metrolink-all-lines-schedule.pdf