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In the recent past there was a Surfliner that traveled north to San Luis Obispo in the late morning/early afternoon (before the Starlight). Was it cut back at the last timetable change?
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quote:Originally posted by espeefoamer: There was no cutback.The train still runs to SLO.
I only see one that gets in to SLO at 8:30pm. I thought there was another Surfliner that got in earlier, but maybe not...will look at my older timetables.
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As far as I am aware there has only ever been the one surfliner that continues to SLO (as at present that's the one that leaves LAUS at approx 3.00pm, Santa Barbara at 5.30, arriving SLO at about 8.30). However, what you may have seen (I certainly remember seeing it on Trainweb)was the provisional timetable for the planned Coast Daylight service from LA to San Francisco. Northbound it was proposed to run about two hours in front of the Starlight and was due to arrive at SLO at about 1.30pm - the reason I remember it so well is that it was scheduled to stop at my favourite haunt, Grover Beach (next to Pismo), which the Starlight passes through without stopping. Alas, the Daylight train has not yet come to fruition although there is a Amtrak bus advertised in the Surfliner timetable as the Coast Daylight which runs all the way from Santa Barbara to SFO.
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Yes; I searched back and there is only one Surfliner. I must have been looking during the summer, as I recall thinking the entire northbound journey would be in daylight. Oh well.
I had seen the provisional schedule for the other train but had never heard that it was close to being funded.
I had considered riding the bus for a split second, but I believe it was you who reminded us some time back that the train passes around Vandenberg AFB/Point Conception right by the seashore...far far from route 101...and I'd much rather travel by the shore
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