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  1. This $26 train from Ottawa takes you to a waterside town that looks like a European postcard

    All aboard for summer adventures! If visiting a quaint small town with European vibes and tons of opportunities…
    #NewsBeep #News #Ottawa #CA #Canada #gananoqueontario #thousandislands #ViaRail
    newsbeep.com/ca/735339/

  2. Now heading back to Montreal in a beautiful #ViaRail Budd car consist with a loco each at the front and back. Not sure, if it is push-pull or pull-push. Either way. We have enough power for a 1-min early departure 🤔 #traintoot

  3. Now heading back to Montreal in a beautiful #ViaRail Budd car consist with a loco each at the front and back. Not sure, if it is push-pull or pull-push. Either way. We have enough power for a 1-min early departure 🤔 #traintoot

  4. VIA Rail starts allowing bikes on some Ottawa—Québec trains starting today.

    It costs $25/bike

    viarail.ca/en/plan/baggages/sp
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    VIA Rail commence à accepter les vélos sur certains trains entre Ottawa et Québec à compter d’aujourd’hui

    Il en coûte 25$/vélo

    viarail.ca/fr/planifier/bagage

    via: forum.agoramtl.com/t/via-rail-

    #Ontario #Québec #VIARail

  5. VIA Rail starts allowing bikes on some Ottawa—Québec trains starting today.

    It costs $25/bike

    viarail.ca/en/plan/baggages/sp
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    VIA Rail commence à accepter les vélos sur certains trains entre Ottawa et Québec à compter d’aujourd’hui

    Il en coûte 25$/vélo

    viarail.ca/fr/planifier/bagage

    via: forum.agoramtl.com/t/via-rail-

    #Ontario #Québec #VIARail

  6. London to Toronto in a #ViaRail LRC consist that looks and smells like they just fished it out of the lake

  7. London to Toronto in a #ViaRail LRC consist that looks and smells like they just fished it out of the lake

  8. Amazing Via Rail tracker really spells out how horrible their on-time performance is.

    Reddit post from creator: reddit.com/r/ViaRail/s/XSdSJUU

    Tracker: thetrackrecord.ca/

    #ViaRail #CDNPoli #Transit

  9. Amazing Via Rail tracker really spells out how horrible their on-time performance is.

    Reddit post from creator: reddit.com/r/ViaRail/s/XSdSJUU

    Tracker: thetrackrecord.ca/

    #ViaRail #CDNPoli #Transit

  10. Canada High Speed Rail Project Updates
    youtube.com/watch?v=M0eyGjhunP

    Seems as if the project is working out the details of the alignment. I'm not sure where exactly this video gets its information though...

    It claims that the alignment will have a station in downtown #Montréal, approached from #Laval, possibly with a new tunnel under Mount Royal.

    #Alto #HSR #ViaRail #trains

  11. Canada High Speed Rail Project Updates
    youtube.com/watch?v=M0eyGjhunP

    Seems as if the project is working out the details of the alignment. I'm not sure where exactly this video gets its information though...

    It claims that the alignment will have a station in downtown #Montréal, approached from #Laval, possibly with a new tunnel under Mount Royal.

    #Alto #HSR #ViaRail #trains

  12. Return trip on #ViaRail from Montreal to Toronto and we are on an old train again. I wasn’t surprised, as this morning I took the REM to Brossard and counted 8 parked new trains in the yard — 25% of the new fleet. And that’s just the ones here not in use, never mind Ottawa’s or Toronto’s storage tracks.

    Also the drinks are smaller and weaker in business class now. Never gonna attract people to trains THAT way. 😜

  13. Return trip on #ViaRail from Montreal to Toronto and we are on an old train again. I wasn’t surprised, as this morning I took the REM to Brossard and counted 8 parked new trains in the yard — 25% of the new fleet. And that’s just the ones here not in use, never mind Ottawa’s or Toronto’s storage tracks.

    Also the drinks are smaller and weaker in business class now. Never gonna attract people to trains THAT way. 😜

  14. Well that’s a new one: approaching Cornwall our #ViaRail train has to wait for not a freight train, but another VIA train, to depart the station before we can arrive.

  15. Well that’s a new one: approaching Cornwall our #ViaRail train has to wait for not a freight train, but another VIA train, to depart the station before we can arrive.

  16. On the plus side, these ancient cars and locomotive will much more likely get me to Montreal. From my reading it seem that the #ViaRail #Siemens new fleet has a much lower success rate at “go places.”

  17. On the plus side, these ancient cars and locomotive will much more likely get me to Montreal. From my reading it seem that the #ViaRail #Siemens new fleet has a much lower success rate at “go places.”

  18. Disappointed to find my #ViaRail corridor train using ancient equipment from 1981, despite the new trains all being delivered long ago. I should have done my research - the #Siemens Ventures are having nonstop problems, and a third of the fleet or more is out of service: reddit.com/r/ViaRail/s/kjcGkIf

    I was excited for new train with clean air. Guess I’ll be sick next week.

  19. Disappointed to find my #ViaRail corridor train using ancient equipment from 1981, despite the new trains all being delivered long ago. I should have done my research - the #Siemens Ventures are having nonstop problems, and a third of the fleet or more is out of service: reddit.com/r/ViaRail/s/kjcGkIf

    I was excited for new train with clean air. Guess I’ll be sick next week.

  20. Canada’s auditor-general says VIA Rail needs to improve its service. Trains were on-time 30% of the time during the first quarter of 2025.

    toronto.citynews.ca/2026/03/16
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    La vérificatrice générale du Canada dit que VIA Rail doit améliorer son service. Les trains étaient à l’heure 30% du temps pendant le premier trimestre de 2025.

    ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2

    #Canada #VIARail #Trains

  21. Canada’s auditor-general says VIA Rail needs to improve its service. Trains were on-time 30% of the time during the first quarter of 2025.

    toronto.citynews.ca/2026/03/16
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    La vérificatrice générale du Canada dit que VIA Rail doit améliorer son service. Les trains étaient à l’heure 30% du temps pendant le premier trimestre de 2025.

    ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2

    #Canada #VIARail #Trains

  22. An update on the planned meeting of Transport Committee in Parliament that was scheduled for today at 16:30 to study VIA Rail's snafus.

    It has been Cancelled.

    #ViaRail

  23. An update on the planned meeting of Transport Committee in Parliament that was scheduled for today at 16:30 to study VIA Rail's snafus.

    It has been Cancelled.

    #ViaRail

  24. VIA Rail cancelled several trains in the Montréal-Ottawa-Toronto corridor because of “heightened operational pressures”

    cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/via-
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    VIA Rail a annulé plusieurs trains dans le corridor Montréal-Ottawa-Toronto à cause de « pressions opérationnelles augmentées »

    // Article en anglais //

    #Montréal #Ontario #Ottawa #Québec #Toronto #VIARail

  25. VIA Rail cancelled several trains in the Montréal-Ottawa-Toronto corridor because of “heightened operational pressures”

    cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/via-
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    VIA Rail a annulé plusieurs trains dans le corridor Montréal-Ottawa-Toronto à cause de « pressions opérationnelles augmentées »

    // Article en anglais //

    #Montréal #Ontario #Ottawa #Québec #Toronto #VIARail

  26. À travers cet article on apprend que VIA va commander 42 locomotives et 320 voitures. Mais ça prendra certainement plusieurs années #viarail
    lapresse.ca/affaires/entrepris

  27. À travers cet article on apprend que VIA va commander 42 locomotives et 320 voitures. Mais ça prendra certainement plusieurs années #viarail
    lapresse.ca/affaires/entrepris

  28. A VIA Rail train crashed into two parked trucks in Saint-Alexandre-de-Kamouraska, Québec :flagqc:

    Me: How‽

    cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/qu
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    Un train de VIA Rail est entré en collision avec deux camions stationnés à Saint-Alexandre-de-Kamouraska, Québec :flagqc:

    Moi: Mais comment est-ce possible‽

    ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2

    #Québec #VIARail

  29. VIA Rail passengers on train 669 between Montréal and Toronto got stranded in Brockville, Ontario :flagon: for over 12 hours after their train broke down

    cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/via-
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    Les passagers du train 669 de VIA Rail entre Montréal et Toronto se sont retrouvés coincés pendant plus de 12h à Brockville, Ontario :flagon: après que leur train est tombé en panne

    ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2

    #Brockville #VIARail

  30. Ugh the 'stuck on a #ViaRail train' thing is such a part of my life. I can't count how many times it's happened to me over the decades. In my first 20-25yrs the train was a big piece of life in a railway town.

    Cold waiting for a connecting train in Sudbury, with the train 12-14hrs late due to prairie weather.

    Even more recently taking a 3hr train from Montreal, realizing I could've driven to MTL and back in the time we were stuck in the middle of nowhere. Double-ugh.

    cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/via-