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Via Rail carried approximately 4.1 million passengers in 2023, 96 percent of which were along the Corridor routes connecting the major cities of the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor, and had an on-time performance of 85.4 per cent. [1] Attracting international tourism forms an important part of Via Rail's long distance trans-continental services ...
There is no single route that travels the entire length of the Corridor from Windsor to Quebec City. Via runs a mix of local-service and express trains in the Corridor. The Corridor service area has the heaviest passenger train frequency in Canada, with 36 Via trains traversing the route daily. [4] About 67% of Via's revenue comes from Corridor ...
Library of Parliament Publication No. 2015-55-E Via Rail Canada Inc. and the Future of Passenger Rail in Canada, 5.1 High-speed rail; Bibliothèque du Parlement Publication n o 2015-55-F Via Rail Canada Inc. et l'avenir du transport ferroviaire de voyageurs au Canada, 5.1 Le train à grande vitesse; High Speed Rail Canada - UAC CN Turbo Train ...
The Mount Royal Tunnel (French: tunnel sous le mont Royal, tunnel du mont Royal) is a railway tunnel in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.The tunnel is the third longest in Canada, after the Mount Macdonald Tunnel and the Connaught Tunnel, and connects the city's Central Station, in Downtown Montreal, with the north side of Montreal Island and Laval and passes through Mount Royal.
Officials announced $157.1 million in federal funds have been garnered for the project. $156.3 million of that money is coming to the city of Springfield from the Federal Rail Administration ...
The Van Horne Institute studied the route in 2013. [8] [9] A survey of the proposed route by the development corporation began in July 2020.[10]On September 25, 2020, US President Donald Trump announced he would issue a presidential permit to the railway, [1] which had an agreement with Alaska Railway [11] to develop a joint operating plan for the rail connection to Canada.
By 1978, Via was up and running and they formalized their first order for 10 LRC locomotives and 50 coaches [32] (numbered 3300 to 3349). [29] The total price for the project to this point was $90 million, [28] less than the APT project in the U.K., and less than the successful Metroliner project in the U.S. (after being adjusted for inflation ...
A route map of Via Rail frequencies from 2013. Via Rail operates 497 trains per week over nineteen routes. Via groups these routes into three broad categories: [1] "Rapid Intercity Travel": daytime services over the Corridor between Ontario and Quebec. The vast majority of Via's trains–429 per week–operate here.