Amtrak is attempting to determine serve alcohol on a practice that runs by New Hampshire after the state made a fuss

The Amtrak Downeaster takes passengers 145 miles (233 kilometers) from Brunswick, Maine, to Boston. The practice features a cafe automobile that serves alcohol.

The Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority, a quasi-government company that has a service settlement with Amtrak, mentioned it was advised by the New Hampshire Liquor Fee that the practice can’t serve alcohol through the New Hampshire portion of the journey. There’s a regulation that forbids serving alcohol that hasn’t been bought within the state.

The liquor fee didn’t instantly remark Wednesday. It mentioned in an announcement Tuesday that the Massachusetts-based firm that gives the practice’s meals and beverage service “inadvertently acknowledged that it had been in violation” of New Hampshire’s regulation because it was within the means of renewing its license to serve alcohol on the Downeaster.

The fee mentioned it’s “exploring a artistic answer, laying tracks for a novel partnership between New Hampshire and Maine.”

In the meantime, alcohol gross sales will proceed as standard.

“It’s our understanding that the liquor gross sales on board is not going to have to be suspended in New Hampshire, and we’re very grateful of that,” mentioned Patricia Quinn, govt director of the rail authority.

The practice brings a whole lot of 1000’s of passengers to Boston yearly, and its promoting typically performs up the power to loosen up with a drink through the experience. It’s a preferred journey different for sports activities and concert events as a result of the road ends simply steps from TD Backyard, one among New England’s largest efficiency venues.

Amtrak is conscious that “prospects on board the Downeaster are nonetheless capable of proceed buying alcoholic drinks from the cafe automobile when using by New Hampshire,” mentioned Jason Abrams, an Amtrak consultant.