West Albany to Upper West Side train

Trains from West Albany to Upper West Side start at €34.44 and take 2h 28m at their fastest.

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The Trains from West Albany to Upper West Side starts at €34.44 and takes 2h 28m door to door, run by 1 operator over 243 km, with around 3 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 14 September 2026Priced for 29 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 2h 28mDoor to door
  • 1h 44mMoving
  • €34.44 to €70.74From
  • 06:02 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 3Per day
  • 8.0 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 29 September 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€34.44 to €70.74 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Worked out from this corridor rather than held for anybody. The operator sets the price on the day.

Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €60.84Tue15
  2. about €61.94Wed16
  3. about €62.49Thu17
  4. about €70.74Fri18
  5. about €58.64Sat19
  6. about €61.94Sun20
  7. about €34.99Mon21
  8. about €42.13Tue22
  9. about €40.48Wed23
  10. about €49.29Thu24
  11. about €50.94Fri25
  12. about €52.04Sat26
  13. about €49.28Sun27
  14. about €34.44Mon28

Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 29 September 2026

Cheapest€28.94
  1. Amtrak A745906:021h 44m07:46ColonieUpper West Side station

Door to door 2h 28mCO2 8.0 kgChanges 0Refundable

Carriers

Train operators

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Amtrak€28.942h 27m140 km/hRefundablePower sockets, Wi-Fi
  • Amtrak

The train gets you into Upper West Side. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Upper West Side for the night the train gets in

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Booking window

When to book West Albany to Upper West Side

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €32.7990 days
  2. €27.2960 days
  3. €36.0845 days
  4. €33.3430 days
  5. €33.8921 days
  6. €34.4414 days
  7. €34.997 days
  8. €62.493 days
  9. €60.841 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €27.29.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 129 percent. The dearest point is €62.49, 3 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €49.28Sun
  2. €34.44Mon
  3. €42.13Tue
  4. €40.48Wed
  5. €49.29Thu
  6. €50.94Fri
  7. €52.04Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

West Albany

Rail
  • Colonie
  • Watervliet
  • Union Station
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting
33% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 67% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 243 km against 211 km in a straight line, a detour of 15 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at North Stamford, Stamford. The gap between arriving and leaving is 99 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 10 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is ours to fix and you are rebooked at no charge.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves West Albany at 06:02 and the last at 07:30, across 3 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about West Albany to Upper West Side

The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Train from West Albany to Upper West Side take?

The Train from West Albany to Upper West Side takes 2h 28m door to door, of which 1h 44m is spent moving. The route runs 243 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Train from West Albany to Upper West Side cost?

The Train from West Albany to Upper West Side starts at €34.44 for one passenger, as of 14 September 2026. A typical fare is €34.43. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Train from West Albany to Upper West Side?

1 operators run the Train from West Albany to Upper West Side: Amtrak. Between them they file around 3 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Train from West Albany to Upper West Side use?

The Train from West Albany to Upper West Side leaves from Colonie and arrives at Upper West Side station. Allow about 44m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Train from West Albany to Upper West Side?

Fares for the Train from West Albany to Upper West Side bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €27.29. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 129 percent, measured on 14 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from West Albany to Upper West Side produce?

The Train from West Albany to Upper West Side produces about 8.0 kg of CO2 per passenger over 243 km, which works out at roughly 33 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.

What is provided on board the Train from West Albany to Upper West Side?

Operators on the Train from West Albany to Upper West Side publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 2h 28m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Derived from service area No carrier record names this exact pair. The operators listed publish a service area covering both places at a distance their mode plausibly carries people, which is evidence that the corridor is served and not evidence of a specific service. Pages state which, because presenting the two as the same thing would be dishonest.

Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for West Albany to Upper West Side on 14 September 2026: 243 km of route against 211 km in a straight line, 3 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €34.44, and 2h 28m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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