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Rail Amtrak (tel: (617) 482 3660 or (800) 872 7245, toll free in the USA and Canada; website: www.amtrak.com) uses the city's South Station (tel: (617) 345 7451), 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, 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$90) via Albany, Rochester, Buffalo and Cleveland. There is now the 'new Amtrak' operation, with the first high-speed train service, the Acela, in the USA. This 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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