Hello and Welcome to Ottawa, Ontario, Canada’s Capital City! Today we’re taking an in-depth look at VIA Rail’s brand new ...

Passengers on Via Rail's The Ocean train  to Montreal were forced to disembark in Truro on Sunday after it experienced ...

Via Rail wants to use refurbished railcars to improve service between Halifax and Montreal, but the CEO of the Crown corporation can't say whether doing so will increase the frequency of trains on the ...

A Canadian National Railway derailment on Friday morning (July 25, 2025) led to disruption of VIA Rail Canada corridor service to and from Windsor, Ont., the CBC reports. Five trains between Toronto ...

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada says it is sending a team of investigators to Paris, Ont., to gather evidence and determine what happened.

VIA Rail system map. Geography accuracy is not absolute. Line coloration is to match the colors used in the VIA Rail Timetable (February 2019). This map was remade to replace the previously included ...

Sixth and final of a series: During August and early September of 2023, I spent much of a five-week period on VIA Rail, riding that railroad’s obscure “Adventure” routes. I had made it as far west as ...

VIA HFR would largely privatize rail travel along the 1,000-kilometer route that now accounts for 96 percent of Via’s passengers and 82 percent of its ticket revenue.

Palliser argued for a route south of the Great Lakes, through the United States. Sir John A. was adamant that the route be ...

Members of the union representing about 2,500 VIA Rail Canada employees have ratified a new three-year contract with the passenger operator. Unifor announced Thursday (July 17, 2025) that members of ...

Canada is by far the biggest exporter of durum wheat in the world. And it's from one of the prairie provinces, Manitoba, that VIA Rail train 693 begins its journey here in the capital, Winnipeg.