Winston-Salem to North Charleston train

Trains from Winston-Salem to North Charleston start at €45.99 and take 4h at their fastest.

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The Trains from Winston-Salem to North Charleston starts at €45.99 and takes 4h door to door, run by 1 operator over 416 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

Checked 20 September 2026Priced for 7 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 4hDoor to door
  • 3h 16mMoving
  • €56.99 to €111.99From
  • 06:22 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 5Per day
  • 13.7 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 7 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€56.99 to €111.99 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Typical for this corridor. The operator sets the price on the day.

Departure times on this route

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Fares by date

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

Typical fares

  1. about €103.19Mon21
  2. about €96.04Tue22
  3. about €97.69Wed23
  4. about €111.99Thu24
  5. about €109.79Fri25
  6. about €97.69Sat26
  7. about €87.79Sun27
  8. about €69.09Mon28
  9. about €56.99Tue29
  10. about €65.78Wed30
  11. about €74.59Thu1
  12. about €74.04Fri2
  13. about €69.64Sat3
  14. about €58.09Sun4

Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 7 October 2026

Cheapest€45.99
  1. Amtrak A496706:223h 16m09:38Union StationNorth Charleston Intermodal Transportation Center

Door to door 4hCO2 13.7 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€45.993h 39m140 km/hRefundablePower sockets, Wi-Fi
  • Amtrak

The train gets you into North Charleston. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.

A hotel room

A room in North Charleston for the night the train gets in

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Booking window

When to book Winston-Salem to North Charleston

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

  1. €54.2490 days
  2. €59.7460 days
  3. €45.4445 days
  4. €44.8930 days
  5. €52.5921 days
  6. €58.0914 days
  7. €87.797 days
  8. €97.693 days
  9. €103.191 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €44.89.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 130 percent. The dearest point is €103.19, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 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. €58.09Sun
  2. €69.09Mon
  3. €56.99Tue
  4. €65.78Wed
  5. €74.59Thu
  6. €74.04Fri
  7. €69.64Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Winston-Salem

Rail
  • Union Station
  • Rural Hall Depot

North Charleston

Rail
  • North Charleston Intermodal Transportation Center
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 416 km against 362 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 Charlotte, Fayetteville, Greensboro, Columbia. The gap between arriving and leaving is 64 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 15 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 06:22 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.

Questions about Winston-Salem to North Charleston

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 North Charleston take?

The Train from Winston-Salem to North Charleston takes 4h door to door, of which 3h 16m is spent moving. The route runs 416 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 North Charleston cost?

The Train from Winston-Salem to North Charleston starts at €45.99 for one passenger, as of 20 September 2026. A typical fare is €63.59. 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 North Charleston?

1 operators run the Train from Winston-Salem to North Charleston: 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 North Charleston use?

The Train from Winston-Salem to North Charleston leaves from Union Station and arrives at North Charleston Intermodal Transportation Center. 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 Winston-Salem to North Charleston?

Fares for the Train from Winston-Salem to North Charleston bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €44.89. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 130 percent, measured on 20 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

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

The Train from Winston-Salem to North Charleston produces about 13.7 kg of CO2 per passenger over 416 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 North Charleston?

Operators on the Train from Winston-Salem to North Charleston publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 4h 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 The operators listed publish a service area covering both places. That evidences the corridor rather than a named service.

Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labelled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.

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On this page
Every figure above was computed for Winston-Salem to North Charleston on 20 September 2026: 416 km of route against 362 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €45.99, and 4h door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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