Getting There By Rail
Amtrak (tel: (617) 345 7958, (800) USA RAIL or (800) 872 7245, toll free in the USA and Canada; website: www.amtrak.com) uses the city’s South Station (tel: (617) 345 7460), at the junction of Summer Street and Atlantic Avenue, and Back Bay Station, at 145 Dartmouth Street. South Station, now renovated, has restaurants, newsagents and information booth.
Rail services: The Northeast Direct service runs to Newport News, Virginia (13 hours, US$86) via New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, DC. The Lakeshore Limited service goes from Boston eastwards to Chicago (22 hours, US$97) via Albany, Rochester, Buffalo and Cleveland. Amtrak’s high-speed train service, the Acela, reduces the Boston–Washington, DC journey to a mere 3 hours 15 minutes (from 4 hours 45 minutes).
Transport to the city: Both South Station and Bay Back Station are on subway lines.
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