Northeast Regional or Valley Flyer
The two routes share one station, New Haven. The table lists what each shows and how long each takes; the route pages carry the full stretch tables.
Side by side
| Northeast Regional | Valley Flyer | |
|---|---|---|
| Endpoints | Roanoke to Boston | Greenfield to New Haven |
| Duration, end to end | 17 h 42 m | 2 h 55 m |
| Frequency | Daily | 5 days a week |
| Trains | 66 eastbound, 151 westbound | 479 southbound, 486 northbound |
| Named stretches with a cited source | 7 | 4 |
| Shows | Big rivers, Big cities, Mountains | Big rivers, Mountains |
| Headline stretch | Potomac River and the monuments | Connecticut River to Springfield |
| Headline stretch in daylight | eastbound: dark, 9:20 p.m.; westbound: daylight Feb; dawn Mar; daylight Apr to Sep; dawn Oct; daylight Nov; dawn Dec to Jan, 7:39 a.m. | southbound: daylight Apr to Aug; dusk Sep; dark Oct to Feb; dusk Mar, 6:51 p.m.; northbound: daylight Feb to Oct; dusk Nov to Jan, 4:43 p.m. |
Duration, frequency, and daylight are computed from the Amtrak GTFS timetable (fetched 2026-10-15) for the representative trip in each direction; daylight is the phrase for the headline stretch, the highlighted row of each route page. Named stretches are counted from the cited route guides. How these are computed.