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New Holoke, MA station

Guilford Rail System changed its name to Pan Am Railways in 2006. Discussion relating to the current operations of the Boston & Maine, the Maine Central, and the Springfield Terminal railroads (as well as the Delaware & Hudson while it was under Guilford control until 1988). Official site can be found here: PANAMRAILWAYS.COM.

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New Holoke, MA station

  by BenH
 
The new Depot Square Station in Holyoke, MA (Station code HLK) opens this week on Thursday, August 27th.

There is an official ribbon cutting ceremony at 12:30 PM at the station site. Details on this link:
http://www.holyoke.org/news/amtrak-ribb ... -ceremony/
http://www.holyokeredevelopment.com/passenger-rail

The first scheduled Amtrak departures out of Holyoke will be:
SB Train 55 at 1:45 pm
NB train 56 at 3:49 pm

The SB train (55) has been running 18 minutes late (on average) out of Northampton in August so its doubtful that this train will be on-time on Thursday, but I guess miracles can happen.
The NB train usually arrives in Northampton about 10 minutes early so if it departs Springfield on-time it will surely be early into Holyoke.

Two questions:
Is this the first scheduled Amtrak service to call on Holyoke?
When did the B&M end passenger service to/from Holyoke?
Last edited by BenH on Tue Aug 25, 2015 4:57 pm, edited 4 times in total.

Re: New Holoke, MA station

  by whatelyrailfan
 
BenH wrote:The new Depot Square Station in Holyoke, MA (Station code HLK) opens this week on Thursday, August 27th.

There is an official ribbon cutting ceremony at 12:30 PM at the station site. Details on this link:
http://www.holyoke.org/news/amtrak-ribb ... -ceremony/

The first scheduled Amtrak departures out of Holyoke will be:
SB Train 55 at 1:45 pm
NB train 56 at 3:49 pm

The SB train has been running about 15 mins late out of Northampton in August so its doubtful that this train will be on-time on Thursday, but I guess miracles can happen.
The NB train usually arrives in Northampton about 10 minutes early so if it departs Springfield on-time it will surely be early into Holyoke.

Two questions:
Is this the first scheduled Amtrak service to call on Holyoke?
When did B&M end passenger service to/from Holyoke?
The B&M ceased passenger service to Holyoke in 1966. Amtrak was formed in 1971 and has never made a scheduled stop in Holyoke. And I also wonder if the train will be on time, as it usually goes past my condo between 1:50-2:10pm, and things haven't improved yet. Either way, I've got my round trip ticket to Springfield and back, the first person in Holyoke to purchase a train ticket since 1966! I wonder if the ribbon-cutting ceremony is so much earlier so that if the train is late it won't reflect poorly on our brave young mayor.
Peace,
Jonathan
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