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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.
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 ...
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 ...
This is a list of stations with services provided by Via Rail. [1] Stations Province Service(s) Connections Abbotsford: BC ... O-Train: Ottermere: ON
In May 2021, Realtime Trains stated that 45% of the distance travelled by trains on the British railway network was covered by Know Your Train. [ 6 ] Another service called Track Your Train was added in September 2020, offering advanced notice of platform alterations and potential delays to a service.
The median length of a U.S. freight train is roughly 5,400 feet (1,646 meters), or roughly 90 cars, with a small fraction exceeding 14,000 feet (4,267 meters). Trains include equipment from ...
The Sudbury–White River train, formerly the Lake Superior, informally called the Budd Car, is a Canadian passenger train operated by Via Rail serving communities between Sudbury and White River, Ontario, three times a week.
Edmonton station (French: gare d'Edmonton; IATA: XZL) or Edmonton Train Station, is the main inter-city train station in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, operated by Via Rail.The railway station is located approximately 5.5 kilometres northwest of Downtown Edmonton on a spur off the Canadian National Railway near the former site of the Edmonton City Centre Airport.