Services
The primary service at Springfield Station are the New Haven – Springfield Shuttle trains connecting Springfield to the Northeast Corridor trains at New Haven. Moreover, an additional 1-2 Northeast Regional round trips start or terminate their service at Springfield as opposed to Boston. Long distance services comprise Amtrak's Vermonter and the Lake Shore Limited "Boston section." The Vermonter uses the connection to the Boston Line to travel east to Palmer, Massachusetts (where it reverses and heads north), while the Lake Shore makes use of the Main Line platforms as it continues to/from Albany.
Previously, a single Northeast Regional round trip (usually trains 142 and 145) would travel between New Haven and Boston via Springfield and the Boston Line, as opposed to the faster, electrified Northeast Corridor. In 2003, a problem pulled the Acela Express trainsets out of service and in an effort to find substitute rolling stock, Amtrak first curtailed the inland round trip to a 3 car shuttle between Boston and New Haven before canceling it completely. Today, all normally scheduled Regional trains using the Inland Route only use the portion between Springfield and New Haven; in the event of a service disruption on the Northeast Corridor trains may be scheduled to run via the "complete Inland Route." One such occasion was the replacement of the Thames River Bridge movable span in June 2008, when Amtrak scheduled 3 round trips per day over the Inland Route to substitute for the complete suspension of regular Northeast Corridor service.
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