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List of Via Rail routes

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List of Via Rail routes
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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 trains429 per weekoperate here.
  • "Long-distance travel and tourism": the famous Canadian and Ocean, providing traditional transcontinental service.
  • "Mandatory Services": rural services mandated by the Canadian Government for areas which otherwise lack reasonable year-round transportation.

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A route map of Via Rail frequencies from 2013.
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Current routes

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Intercity routes

  Transferred from Canadian National Railway (CN)   Transferred from CP Rail (now Canadian Pacific Kansas City)   Active route

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Commuter routes

Via operated some grandfathered commuter passenger routes from CN and CP from 1977 until financial constraints led to cuts in 1981. A few became provincial commuter rail lines after transfer from Canadian National Railways or Canadian Pacific Railway.

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