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...and service is now being restored: (Information courtesy of VIA Rail) TORONTO, April 8, 2015 – VIA Rail Canada announces that as of April 10, passenger rail service between Toronto and Winnipeg will resume. 1. The next westbound departure out of Toronto (Train #1) will be on Saturday, April 11 at...

I just received a news email from VIA concerning the cancellation of Tuesday's (9th March) Canadian between Toronto and Winnipeg. What surprised me about the message was that VIA is offering no alternative arrangements for passengers affected. I thought it was normal practice for VIA to fly passenge...

Probably this thread should now say "No" train to Churchill. If you haven't seen VIA's advisory (on viarail.ca), please note the following: "Travel Advisory! Following the closing of a portion of the railway in Northern Manitoba due to a freight train derailment, VIA RailCanada will c...

Taken from the VIA Rail Press Release... HIGHLIGHTS From Thursday, March 28th to Tuesday, April 2nd: ROUTES BETWEEN QUEBEC, MONTRÉAL, OTTAWA AND TORONTO Increase in ridership of 10.2% compared to 2012 Increase in revenues of 4.9% compared to 2012 COAST-TO-COAST VIA RAIL NETWORK 71,000 passengers on-...

Addition/correction to my previous post - I should have said "Scotland, England and Wales"!

The intention was to have overnight service from cities in Scotland and England to cities in continental Europe, under the brand name "Nightstar". Routes proposed were: London - Amsterdam & Cologne London - Dortmund & Frankfurt Glasgow - Paris & Brussels Manchester - Paris &...

The 2012 Spring Pulse Poetry Festival PoeTrain Express (aka The Northlander) will leave Toronto Union Station Thursday, May 10 and arrive in Cobalt that same day. See
http://speaker.northernontario.ca/index ... 8&Itemid=9 for more details.

Isn't it ironic that yesterday and today, when the Liberal government and NDP opposition are discussing the passing of the provincial budget, including a discussion of the future of ONTC, we find that Highway 11, between North Bay and Cochrane, has been closed twice for several hours, in two separat...

The last couple of posts confuse ONR (the Ontario Northland Railway) with ONTC (the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission). The former is a subset of the latter, which includes Ontera (the telecom company for northeastern Ontario), Ontario Northland buses, the Station Inn hotel in Cochrane, th...

Just a correction on the population of the area served by Ontario Northland. According to the Ministry of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry (http://www.mndm.gov.on.ca/northern_development/documents/northern_ontario_e.pdf), the 2010 population of that part of northern Ontario served by the Nor...

http://winnipeg.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20120123/wpg_via_derailment_120123/20120123/?hub=WinnipegHome "Train derailment in Alberta means Via passengers will be flown between Winnipeg and Edmonton". "Starting at 8:30 p.m. Jan. 23, westbound rail passengers will be stopped in Wi...

It might work, but with certain conditions to be met:
(a) Overnight. A 5-hr daytime journey that becomes 8-hr on a mixed train (because of lower speeds) is bearable if passengers can sleep.
(b) Few or no stops en route between starting point and destination. Gotta keep long freights moving.

Now I've learnt something really useful in here. Thanks!

OK, now that we're into the realm of daydreaming, here's one way of connecting Thunder Bay - Sudbury to Toronto: via North Bay. With a slight variation on the suggested times above, it would be possible to run overnight between Sudbury and Toronto without the hassle of trying to connect with the Can...

...Also, you wouldn't happen to know why does the Northlander not serve some of the smaller towns along the 11 corridor? I've been on some Via Trains that stop in the middle of nowhere (the Sudbury-White River service for example), so I don't understand why the Northlander bypasses many of the small...