Today I took the Amtrak Acela service from Boston to New York. As trains go, it was very comfortable. The seats were bigger and had more leg room than an equivalent train in the UK. The food on the train was nothing to write home about, but that’s not unusual. The one thing that was very obvious, however, was how terribly slow it was. If they had decent track they could probably shave an hour off that journey. Thankfully the Connecticut coastline is so pretty, especially on such a clear and sunny day, that you don’t care too much how long the journey takes.