#viarail — Public Fediverse posts

VIA Rail will build a multimodal transfer station in Dorval, Québec on the site of the current Dorval exo train station

https://montreal.citynews.ca/2026/08/12/new-transit-hub-dorval/
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VIA Rail construira une station de transfert multimodal à Dorval, Québec sur le site de l'actuelle gare Dorval d'exo

https://media.viarail.ca/fr/communiques/2026/new-integrated-station-dorval-rail-launches-project-better-connect-rail-public-transit-and-airport

#Dorval #Montréal #VIARail #exo #ARTM

Stadler und VIA Rail Canada schließen Vertrag über Hybridlokomotiven
#Bahnindustrie #Eisenbahn #Hybridlok #Kanada #Lokomotive #Stadler #VIARail
https://bahnblogstelle.com/259308/stadler-und-via-rail-canada-schliessen-vertrag-ueber-hybridlokomotiven/

This is cool.
But a new train sitting on the siding for 4 hours to wait for a freight train when the entire journey is supposed to take 4 hours is the actual problem no one in government wants to solve.

VIA Rail remains a national embarrassment because of successive Liberal and Conservative policy. Now they’ll just be a national embarrassment with new rolling stock.

Oh and people can barely afford to take it across the country. It is mostly an embarrassing tourist fraud with spectacular views.

Ask me how I really feel. 😆 🚂

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/via-rail-newbattery-diesel-locomotives-9.7288814?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

#viaRail #canpoli #cdnpoli #canada #transportation #tourism

This was to experience modern-day VIA Rail. Last time I took them was in 2016.

And to Ottawa, it was like 2000!
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C'était pour faire l'expérience de VIA Rail contemporain. La dernière fois que je les ai pris, c'était en 2016.

Et vers Ottawa, c'était comme 2000!

#VIARail #YMY #XDS #Montréal #Ottawa

Looking at going to Ottawa using VIA Rail…

The schedules are horrible. Like, departures at 6:20, 9:00, 11:54. And to return: 14:15, 16:05 and 17:55.

I was look at something like 10-10:30 to go, and 19:30-20:00 to return 😢
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Je regarder pour aller à Ottawa en utilisant VIA Rail...

Les horaires sont horribles. Comme, départs à 6h20, 9h00, 11h54. Et pour revenir : 14h15, 16h05 et 17h55.

Je regardais quelque chose comme 10-10h30 pour aller, et 19h30-20h00 pour revenir 😢

#VIARail #YMY #XDS

Sunset over a Siemens Venture VIA Rail trainset stopped to load/unload passengers at Kitchener Station.

#trains #trainspotting #bahn #bahnbilder #rail #railway #viarail #sunsets #clouds #skyscrapers #redskyatnightshepardsdelight

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

It costs $25/bike

https://www.viarail.ca/en/plan/baggages/sports-equipment
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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

https://www.viarail.ca/fr/planifier/bagages/equipements-sport

via: https://forum.agoramtl.com/t/via-rail-discussion-generale/272/1365?u=edwing

#Ontario #Québec #VIARail

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

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

Reddit post from creator: https://www.reddit.com/r/ViaRail/s/XSdSJUUsGm

Tracker: https://thetrackrecord.ca/

#ViaRail #CDNPoli #Transit

Canada High Speed Rail Project Updates
https://youtube.com/watch?v=M0eyGjhunPo&si=moY_Pi1m4VcFyOVn

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

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. 😜

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.

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.”

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: https://www.reddit.com/r/ViaRail/s/kjcGkIfBJL

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

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.

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2026/03/16/via-rail-needs-to-improve-its-service-despite-solid-management-auditor-general/
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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.

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2239654/train-via-rail-ponctualite-verificatrice-generale

#Canada #VIARail #Trains

‘Significant maintenance’ issues put VIA Rail Sudbury-White River route out of service
#viarail #sudburywhiterivertrain #passengerrail #northernontario #wheresourtrain
https://www.sudbury.com/local-news/significant-maintenance-issues-put-via-rail-sudbury-white-river-route-out-of-service-11883024

#sudburywhiterivertrain #viarail #passengerrail #northernontario #wheresourtrain
https://www.thesudburystar.com/opinion/sudbury-white-river-train-on-hiatus-stranding-northeastern-passengers

Northeastern Ontario’s Budd car out of service until Feb. 21
#viarail #sudburywhiteriver #passengerrail #northernontario
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/budd-car-out-of-service-9.7082761

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

Sudbury-White River train on hiatus (EN)
#VIARail #sudburywhiteriver #passengerrail #NorddelOntario #English
https://northerntracks.blog/2026/02/10/sudbury-white-river-train-on-hiatus/