That’s what we hope for.” The train platform on Depot Street is completed and there are signs showing the stops on the entire Downeaster line, as well as banners touting the beginning of the ...

On Friday, Nat Read rode the Amtrak 681 Downeaster train from North Station ... “the last thread of passenger rail on Amtrak’s spiderweb map.” Once Read arrived in Brunswick, he said the ...

"It's used by a whole range of travelers all over the map." Like Dover ... which seeks to expand the number of areas the Downeaster stops, finally broke ground last year. A "rail dropping ceremony ...

The Downeaster is a 116-mile regional passenger train service that has been in operation since 2001. Image courtesy of BMRR. Route map of the new Downeaster service expansion. Image courtesy of ...

the number of travelers arriving or departing on each train is typical of other stations on the Downeaster’s route, except for Portland and Boston, Quinn said. She said the ridership will likely ...

The Downeaster — Amtrak’s passenger train route between Maine and Boston with three stops in New Hampshire — is slated for new trains that are part of a nationwide upgrade. On Thursday ...

The Downeaster currently runs five times a day to and from Boston. The train makes six Maine stops: Wells, Saco, Portland, Freeport and Brunswick, as well as a seasonal stop in Old Orchard Beach.

The Downeaster is benefiting from track improvements in Kennebunk, faster station stops and schedule adjustments made by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, Patricia Douglas of the ...

The Downeaster will resume normal service beginning ... Southbound train 688 will run according to normal schedule making all station stops as far south as Exeter, N.H. Northbound trains 687 ...

The Downeaster — Amtrak’s passenger train route between Maine and Boston with three stops in New Hampshire — is slated for new trains that are part of a nationwide upgrade. On Thursday, Amtrak ...