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The SkyTrain's Canada Line also serves as an airport rail link. "Subway" refers to a rapid transit system using heavy rail with steel wheels. The Toronto subway is the only such system in Canada. "Rubber-tired metro" refers to a rapid transit system using heavy rail with rubber tires. The Montreal Metro is the only such system in Canada.
5000 series central rail-guided rubber-tyred rolling stock operated by Sapporo City Transportation Bureau, Japan, and built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries Rolling Stock Company. A rubber-tyred metro or rubber-tired metro is a form of rapid transit system that uses a mix of road and rail technology.
A train parked at the Canada Line Operations and Maintenance Centre near Bridgeport station. The Canada Line uses a fleet of trains built by Rotem, a division of Hyundai Motor Group. The trains are powered by conventional electric motors, rather than the linear induction motors used by the Expo and Millennium Line's Bombardier ART trains ...
The Trillium Line is a federally regulated rail line operated under the name "Capital Railway" Exo commuter rail: EXO: Greater Montreal: Exo, a provincial entity: 3 commuter routes with trackage rights over CP lines, 2 commuter routes with trackage rights over CN lines, 1 owned GO Transit: GOT: Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area: Metrolinx, a ...
Canadian National (CN) and Canadian Pacific (CP) had long operated commuter trains in the Montreal area, but by the 1980s, their services had dwindled to one route each. The Commission de transport de la communauté de Montréal (CTCUM, predecessor of the STM), which already managed Metro and bus services across the Island of Montreal, assumed management of CN's Deux-Montagnes commuter service ...
Canada has 49,422 kilometres (30,709 mi) total trackage, of which only 129 kilometres (80 mi) is electrified (all urban rail transit networks). Canada uses 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge track for the majority of its railway system.
The Expo Line and Millennium Line Bombardier Advanced Rapid Transit (ART) technology is a system of automated trains driven by linear induction motors, formerly known as the Intermediate Capacity Transit System (ICTS). These trains reach speeds of 80 km/h (49.7 mph); [1] including wait times at stops, the end-to-end average speed is 45 km/h (28 ...
In 2011, a group named the Shining Waters Railway was established with the goals of inheriting the Kawartha Lakes Railway's two subdivisions, the Havelock and Nephton from CP Rail to continue freight service and even resume passenger rail service from Toronto to Peterborough and beyond (in a partnership with GO Train, VIA Rail, or another partner).