The Downeaster pulls into the Brunswick Visitors Center. Service on four of the line’s ten daily routes will be suspended from August 18-25. C. Thacher Carter/The Times Record

Amtrak is suspending two midday trips on the Downeaster and changing service on two other trips to accommodate track work by Sunday.

The modified service of trains 681 and 686 will include a “combination of trains and charter buses” and neither bus will stop in Saco or Old Orchard Beach, the Downeaster said in a service announcement.

Train 681 is the first train on the line heading north, leaving Boston at 8:50 a.m. Train 686 heads south from Brunswick, leaving at 12:55 p.m.

Meanwhile, two lunchtime lines have been completely cancelled for the week.

Train 683, which departs Boston north at 11:50 a.m. and arrives in Brunswick at 3:10 p.m., and train 684, which departs Brunswick at 11:00 a.m. and arrives in Boston at 2:20 p.m., have been canceled without alternate service being offered.

The remaining six trains will run according to the usual timetable. Detailed route information is available on the ticket website.

The service changes are intended to allow workers to complete work on the Wells Area Improvement Project, Amtrak said. That project includes widening the existing passing lane and building a new platform.

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