By: Emily Craighead
Two days after Amtrak’s "Clocker" train took its last trip to New York on Friday, NJ Transit implemented a new timetable that includes four additional express trains on the Northeast Corridor line.
The Clocker service, featuring individual seats, included a private car leased by the "200 Club." Club members paid a membership fee for a quieter and less crowded ride.
Under the new schedule, most departure times on the Northeast Corridor will change by a couple of minutes, according to NJ Transit. In the morning, NJ Transit has added five trains, including two express trains that bypass all the stations between Princeton Junction at West Windsor station and Newark Liberty International Airport station. Two additional Clocker replacement trains run in the evening from New York to Trenton.
An agreement between Amtrak and NJ Transit, concluded in 2004, provided for NJ Transit to increase its peak-period use of Amtrak’s Penn Station in New York and memorialized plans to turn over the Clocker service to NJ transit.

