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Passengers escape serious injury in Via Rail derailment

(The following story by Ann Carroll appeared on The Montreal Gazette website on February 26, 2010.) MONTREAL — Weary passengers alighted a coach and trooped into Central Station in Montreal Thursday morning, six hours after their VIA Rail train derailed in St. Charles...

Via Rail train derails near Quebec City

(The following appeared on the Montreal Gazette website on February 245, 2010.) MONTREAL — A VIA Rail passenger train derailed early Thursday morning at St. Charles de Bellechasse, on the south shore of Quebec City. About 10 passengers suffered minor injuries and...

CN derailment strands Via Rail passengers

(The following story by Ian Hitchen appeared on the Winnipeg Free Press website on February 12, 2010.) BRANDON — Some Via Rail Canada passengers had to either bunk down in trains or make alternative travel plans when their route was blocked by a 56-car train...

Via Rail chairman reappointed for another term

(Via Rail issued the following on October 6, 2009.) OTTAWA, Ontario — Canada’s Transport Minister John Baird and the Honourable Rob Merrifield, Minister of State (Transport), today announced the reappointment of Mr. Donald A. Wright as chairman of VIA Rail...

VIA Rail to overhaul 78 cars, 21 locomotives

(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on September 23, 2009.) Earlier this week, VIA Rail Canada Inc. and the government of Canada unveiled a $20 million program aimed at renewing and upgrading the railroad’s locomotives and passenger cars....

VIA Rail’s language saga continues

(Sun Media circulated the following story by Althia Raj on August 20, 2009.) OTTAWA — The commissioner of official languages launched two investigations Thursday into allegations Via Rail did not offer emergency instructions in French to 334 passengers who had to be...