June 10, 2002 | Headlines, VIA Rail
KINGSTON, Ontario — VIA Rail Canada officially opened VIA’s renovated Kingston station today, following a $2 million project to modernize facillities for the growing number of passengers using the station. On hand at the press conference to mark the event were...
May 22, 2002 | Headlines, VIA Rail
MONCTON — Transport Minister David Collenette, joined by Labour Minister Claudette Bradshaw, and VIA Chairman Jean Pelletier officially opened the renovated Moncton passenger rail station today, following the completion of a $1.5 million project to upgrade and...
May 13, 2002 | Headlines, VIA Rail
KITCHENER-WATERLOO — VIA Rail Canada officially opened Kitchener-Waterloos renovated train station on May 10, marking the completion of a $350,000 project started last October to modernize facilities for the growing number of passengers using the station. On...
April 23, 2002 | Headlines, VIA Rail
SHUBENACADIE, N.S. — A teenager pleaded with his father to call him just after the boy tampered with a railway switch and sent a passenger train hurtling off a track, injuring dozens of people, the Canadian Press reports. The 14-year-old, a skinny teen with a...
April 22, 2002 | Headlines, VIA Rail
HALIFAX, N.S. — Acadian Lines has officially begun offering its 20 daily departures to and from Halifax at the newly renovated VIA Rail station on Hollis Street. The intermodal facility is part of VIA’s extensive renovation of the historic train station,...
April 19, 2002 | Headlines, VIA Rail
VANCOUVER, B.C. — VIA Rail Canada today confirmed that the E&N Railway (a RailAmerica company) will continue operation of its rail service on Vancouver Island to May 15, 2002. During this time, VIA is pleased to continue to offer the regularly scheduled...
April 18, 2002 | Headlines, VIA Rail
SHUBENACADIE, N.S. — The Globe and Mail reports that a 14-year-old Stewiacke, N.S., boy who derailed a Via train seriously injuring 23 passengers, five of whom are now disabled, will have to face some of his victims before he is sentenced. The pale, slightly...
March 19, 2002 | Headlines, VIA Rail
QUNINTE WEST, Ontario — The Honourable David Collenette, federal Minister of Transport, announced that VIA Rail Canada will resume passenger service to Trenton Junction on a trial basis beginning March 18, following an agreement reached with local officials to...
March 18, 2002 | Headlines, VIA Rail
NEW MILLS, N.B. — The investigation into the cause of a Via Rail train derailment in northern New Brunswick is continuing, a wire service reports. “We don’t have an official cause of the accident yet. We are anticipating that we’re going to get...
