Valley Flyer (disambiguation)

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Valley Flyer may refer to:

<i>Valley Flyer</i>

The Valley Flyer was a short-lived named passenger train of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.

Valley Flyer was the trading name of Cityline New Zealand Ltd, a subsidiary of NZ Bus, an Infratil company, until July 2018. It was part of the Stagecoach Group of companies, trading as Cityline Hutt Valley, and also operated services out of Papakura in Auckland before amalgamation with Stagecoach Auckland. Prior to this, the greater part of the operation was part of New Zealand Railways Road Services.

The Valley Flyer is a train service run by Amtrak between New Haven, Connecticut and Greenfield, Massachusetts along Amtrak's New Haven–Springfield Line and the Connecticut River Line, owned by the Masssachusetts Department of Transportation. It is a component of the Hartford Line commuter rail service operated by the Connecticut Department of Transportation.

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