Winston-Salem to Durham train

Trains from Winston-Salem to Durham start at €17.39 and take 1h 52m at their fastest.

Winston-SalemWinston-SalemDurhamDurham

The Trains from Winston-Salem to Durham starts at €17.39 and takes 1h 52m door to door, run by 1 operator over 140 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.

Checked 15 September 2026Priced for 29 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 1h 52mDoor to door
  • 1h 8mMoving
  • €17.39 to €40.49From
  • 06:02 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 5Per day
  • 4.6 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.

€17.39 to €40.49 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 €34.44Wed16
  2. about €40.49Thu17
  3. about €37.19Fri18
  4. about €33.34Sat19
  5. about €36.64Sun20
  6. about €25.64Mon21
  7. about €23.98Tue22
  8. about €23.43Wed23
  9. about €28.39Thu24
  10. about €28.94Fri25
  11. about €26.73Sat26
  12. about €25.63Sun27
  13. about €23.98Mon28
  14. about €17.39Tue29

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

Fastest€17.39
  1. Amtrak A123706:021h 8m07:10Union StationDurham

Door to door 1h 52mCO2 4.6 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€17.391h 46m140 km/hRefundablePower sockets, Wi-Fi
  • Amtrak

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

A hotel room

A room in Durham for the night the train gets in

Sort by distance from Durham and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Winston-Salem to Durham

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

  1. €10.0790 days
  2. €10.6360 days
  3. €10.0745 days
  4. €10.6330 days
  5. €10.6321 days
  6. €10.0714 days
  7. €11.187 days
  8. €17.783 days
  9. €17.781 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €10.07.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 77 percent. The dearest point is €17.78, 3 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 90 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. €14.48Sun
  2. €11.73Mon
  3. €10.63Tue
  4. €12.83Wed
  5. €15.03Thu
  6. €12.28Fri
  7. €12.83Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Winston-Salem

Rail
  • Union Station
  • Rural Hall Depot

Durham

Rail
  • Durham
  • Hillsborough
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 140 km against 122 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 Burlington, Kannapolis, Greensboro, Fayetteville. The gap between arriving and leaving is 53 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 18 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 Winston-Salem at 06:02 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
The alternatives

Trains against the other ways to make this journey

Door to door means the whole journey, including reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end. Fares are the cheapest sold on each mode.
ModeDoor to doorMovingAt the endsFromCO2Per day
Train1h 52m1h 8m44m€17.394.6 kg5
Coach2h 55m2h 11m44m€10.073.8 kg1

Questions about Winston-Salem to Durham

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 Winston-Salem to Durham take?

The Train from Winston-Salem to Durham takes 1h 52m door to door, of which 1h 8m is spent moving. The route runs 140 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 Winston-Salem to Durham cost?

The Train from Winston-Salem to Durham starts at €17.39 for one passenger, as of 15 September 2026. A typical fare is €25.08. 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 Winston-Salem to Durham?

1 operators run the Train from Winston-Salem to Durham: Amtrak. Between them they file around 5 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 Winston-Salem to Durham use?

The Train from Winston-Salem to Durham leaves from Union Station and arrives at Durham. 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.

Is the Train the best way from Winston-Salem to Durham?

Travelling from Winston-Salem to Durham by Coach costs €10.07 and takes 2h 55m door to door, against 1h 52m by Train. Which is better depends on whether the money or the hours matter more on this trip. The comparison table on this page shows every mode side by side.

When should I book the Train from Winston-Salem to Durham?

Fares for the Train from Winston-Salem to Durham bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €10.07. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 77 percent, measured on 15 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from Winston-Salem to Durham produce?

The Train from Winston-Salem to Durham produces about 4.6 kg of CO2 per passenger over 140 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 Winston-Salem to Durham?

Operators on the Train from Winston-Salem to Durham publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 1h 52m 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 Winston-Salem to Durham on 15 September 2026: 140 km of route against 122 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €17.39, and 1h 52m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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