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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.
Alto (stylized as ALTO), also known as the Toronto–Quebec City High-Speed Rail Network, [1] is a planned high-speed rail network in Canada that will connect Quebec City to Toronto. It was announced by the federal government and Justin Trudeau on February 19, 2025.
Chatham station is a train station in Chatham, Ontario, Canada, served by Via Rail trains running between Toronto and Windsor. The station is wheelchair accessible. Postcard showing a train at the station, circa 1912. The Canadian National Railways/VIA Rail Station at Chatham is a one-and-a-half-storey, brick railway station, built in 1879.
Beginning in the 1980s and through the 1990s, Via Rail, Bombardier and the provincial and federal governments studied the feasibility of establishing a dedicated high-speed passenger rail network linking Quebec City–Montreal–Ottawa–Toronto–Windsor similar to the French TGV as a means of reducing domestic air and highway travel between ...
On July 6, 2021, procurement for the Via Rail's High Frequency Rail was announced. The service was planned to operate between Toronto and Quebec City partly along new tracks that would run through Peterborough, Ottawa, Montreal, Laval, and Trois-Rivières, and partly along existing right of way. The government's initial announcement envisioned ...
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 ...
The Ontario and Quebec Railway (O&Q) was a railway located in southern and eastern Ontario, Canada. [1] It was initially chartered in March 1881 by managers of the Canadian Pacific Railway to run between Toronto and Perth, where it would connect, via a short branch line, to the CPR-controlled Brockville and Ottawa Railway.
This is a list of stations with services provided by Via Rail. [1] Stations ... Chatham: ON Québec City ... Toronto streetcar system