(rshsdepot) Portland, Maine

["Jim Dent" <james.dent_@_itochu.com>]

=46rom Trains.com...

Portland station will be ready, but unfinished, when Amtrak service begin=
s

When Amtrak service linking Boston and Portland, Maine, begins next month=
,
the station in Portland will still require more than finishing touches, t=
he
Portland Press Herald reported.

Amtrak trains will call at the Concord Trailways bus station. The waiting
room at the bus station is being doubled in size, and other improvements =
are
being made to accommodate Amtrak passengers. However, the station work wo=
n=92t
be completed until early next year, although the train platform and canop=
y
will be finished when service begins December 15.

Some trains in the first days of operation have already sold out, the
newspaper reported.

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