August 5, 2008 | Headlines, VIA Rail
(The following editorial appeared on the Globe and Mail website on August 5.) TORONTO — The freight train derailment that shut down Via Rail’s Toronto-Montreal route and put thousands of passengers on to buses last week was an excellent example of the sorry...
July 31, 2008 | CN, Headlines, VIA Rail
(Canwest News Service circulated the following story on July 31.) MONTREAL — All of Via Rail’s disrupted service between Toronto and Montreal, and Toronto and Ottawa, is expected to be fully restored this morning after an early-morning derailment of a Canadian...
July 30, 2008 | CN, Headlines, VIA Rail
(Canwest News Service circulated the following on July 30.) KINGSTON, Ontario — A CN freight train derailed early Wednesday just west of Kingston, Ont., disrupting the morning commute on the Via Rail service between Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal. The seven-car...
July 16, 2008 | Canada, Headlines, VIA Rail
(The Canadian Press circulated the following on July 15.) BROCKVILLE, Ont. — A Via Rail train carrying more than 200 people hit a flatbed truck and partially derailed Tuesday afternoon about 25 kilometres west of Brockville, Ont. The locomotive and baggage cars at the...
July 2, 2008 | Canada, Headlines, VIA Rail
(The following column by Justin Bur appeared on the Toronto Star website on July 2. Mr. Bur is vice-president of Transport 2000 Canada.) TORONTO — Going by the way we run our trains, you’d think Canadians didn’t have watches or clocks. It’s a...
July 1, 2008 | Headlines, VIA Rail
(The following story by Reid Southwick appeared on the Daily Gleaner website on July 1.) SAINT JOHN — Industrial Rail Services Inc. filed a more than $100-million bid with Ottawa Monday to refurbish the entire Via Rail fleet that runs between Montreal and Toronto,...
June 30, 2008 | Headlines, VIA Rail
(The Canadian Press circulated the following on June 29.) OTTAWA — Almost half of Via Rail’s passenger trains arrived late over the winter — and many were very tardy, says a new report. The slumping performance, in a year when the Crown corporation promised to get...
June 12, 2008 | Headlines, VIA Rail
(Canwest News Service circulated the followings tory by Allison Lampert on May 27.) MONTREAL — Via Rail Canada Inc. is raising most rail fares by five per cent on June 10 to counter the soaring price of oil that’s crippled all transportation sectors. Via...
May 13, 2008 | Canada, Headlines, VIA Rail
(The following story by Karen Howlett and Kate Hammer appeared on the Globe and Mail website on May 10.) FOLEYET, Ont. — The Canadian was rolling through Northern Ontario early Friday morning when a passenger began to have trouble breathing. A crew member gave her...
February 19, 2008 | CN, Headlines, VIA Rail
(Bloomberg News circulated the following story by Sean B. Pasternak and Hugo Miller on February 19.) TORONTO — VIA Rail Canada and GO Transit delayed and rerouted some passenger trains in Ontario after a Canadian National Railway Co. freight train derailed yesterday...
