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In the context of VIA Rail, I believe that the differentiation between Intercity, Remote and Transcontinental services is rather clear and unambiguous, just like it is for Amtrak with NEC, State-Supported and Long Distance services. In a European context, it might be regional, intercity and...

There is a near-universal phenomenon to differentiate between short-distance modes like buses, streetcars, subways and urban/suburban/regional trains (which have generally a flat fare and don’t require advance booking, reflecting that most trips made are spontaneous and recurring) and...

I find the use of “transit” for any VIA services rather confusing: TTC and STM are transit, VIA is intercity or regional passenger transport.

The RFQ has apparently started for the new non-Corridor fleet: https://media.viarail.ca/en/node/38795

Zero, but you are accidentally making my main point, which was: If we compare the timetables of post-war Canada in steps of approximately 15 years: 1945/04/29 1960/04/24 1976/04/25 1986/06/01 2005/05/01 #14 ("The International") 20:00 CHI 04:20 PTH 04:40 SARN 05:47 LNDN 07:05 BRTF 08:50...

Sure, but there is no segment across the entire Corridor which (even remotely!) serves such a minimal ridership potential as Sarnia-London. That it once had more departures than even Toronto-Ottawa is just a relict from all the Toronto-Chicago through trains, but the moment "The International"...

If they are okay with it, we should be okay with it…

I decided to dive into my timetable database for you to compare the May 2004 with the May 2005 schedules: Basically, what happened is that prior to May 2005, VIA operated a very different morning schedule on weekdays and weekends, where the morning train from Sarnia would operate on weekdays...

I’ve been reminded in the meanwhile that virtually all these stations alomg the Dundas and Kingston Subdivisions already have a platform on the second (outer) track and whereas priority is understandably given to boarding from the main platform (at the closer track), trains can stop at the outer...

My understanding is that the main reason for the line closure was a level crossing collision involving a CN freight train: https://groups.io/g/Canadian-Passenger-Rail/topic/109862236#msg100187 However, that would have been almost 2 hours after your train (78x02) passed Ingersoll...

That’s indeed part of the reason why I would center cross-border passenger rail initiatives on travel to Buffalo or Detroit rather than NYC or Chicago…

Certainly sucks to live in Sarnia without a car, but have you counted the number of CM(A)s in the Corridor alone, which is larger than Sarnia? Even Chatham-Kent is larger and Windsor has more than 4 times Sarnia’s population, whereas Sarnia is only the fourt-largest population center along the...

I think it really starts showing that I haven’t worked on heavy rail projects in the GTHA for the last two years, but you be able to point me at what the current official plans are for the Halton Sub and other pinch points in the GO/RER/ONxpress network? Agreed, reliable service on...

Agreed, but we are a bit in an chicken-and-egg stand-off, where we won’t have upgrades without more frequencies and more frequencies without upgrades. Only an investnent program like the $160 million Ontario apparently promised to Metrolinx could fix this impasse...

We are unfortunately many years away from the tracks between Kitchener and London being travel time competitive again against what could be achieved with a bus, let alone offering rail services across SWO which could accommodate attract a relevant number of passengers without serving Toronto. As...

That is the problem you are trying to fix with trains from Kitchener and London terminating in Guelph and why wouldn’t you run these as shuttle buses feeding trains so that the latter may capitalize on their actual strength, which is to bring large passenger loads reasonably fast and reliable...

I would assume soon after CP abandoned the line in 1986, as Tom Box suggests here: https://groups.io/g/Canadian-Passenger-Rail/topic/via_giving_up_m_o_sub/86935675

VIA purchased the segment between Chatham and Windsor a few years before CN was willing to sell the final few miles of the Chatham Sub into Windsor, so the precedent exists. Anyways, the question is less what VIA is willing to buy than what its federal masters allow it to buy and I would assume...

… by one single UT member. 🤣

I believe it interlines with ReserVIA, hence the references to how many seats are assigned to OTS and which cars may accept wheelchairs: