Urban Sky
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1 minute, in what looks like a spot-on run end-to-end:
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Bordercollie
Senior Member
That's the equivalent to winning the lottery. Go buy a ticket.
cplchanb
Senior Member
kind of sad that being late is a norm for via. In japan the shinkansen averages one minute in a year
cplchanb
Senior Member
Does anyone know what are the most common problems on the new sets right now
Bojaxs
Senior Member
Yep, 4:34pm. Manage to transfer at Union onto the 4:51pm, express to Clarkson. Already home.
My first round trip with VIA was a good one.
Just a tip for anyone booking at seat in the new Siemens Charger trains. If you want a proper window seat, get a seat in an even # row. I got 7D and had the window divider right beside me. Looked as if every seat in the odd rows were next to the window dividers.
Trip back to Toronto. Booked seat 13S on a LRC coach and had a window seat.
Both were business class.
APTA-2048
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cplchanb
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So the hype is real! I wonder what the occasion is
ARG1
Senior Member
As someone who frequently travels Toronto <--> Ottawa, I can confirm this is a really common issue.
Krypto98
Active Member
I have to kinda blame metrolinx too for bad dispatching. I took 67, we were already a bit late due to the heat slow,
We passed a westbound go train around whitby and stopped at Durham jct to wait for them to pass us, followed it to Guildwood, overtook them at Eglinton and had to wait for them again at Danforth to pass us, causing an additional 30 minutes of delay.
micheal_can
Senior Member
All of this points to a challenge when GO RER is built and then even worse when VIA HFR is built. Almost makes VIA HSR on their own dedicated ROW the whole way worth doing.
dowlingm
Senior Member
Does this show VIA leaving Oshawa early, and four minutes early at that? I assume all ticketed passengers were recorded as boarded but it may then be unsurprising that they were ahead of slot when moving off CN and onto Metrolinx.
Urban Sky
Senior Member
Indeed, the “Location History” shows it at the next time point one minute ahead of the scheduled departure time:
just east of the creek
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I see VIA is adjusting the schedule of the ‘Ocean’ due to declining state of repair of the tracks - CN owned. That’s the second CN line where maintenance, or lack of it, is now impacting any sort of passenger rail revive.
Urban Sky
Senior Member
No amount of track maintenance will change that the alignment of the rights-of-ways the Ocean uses east of Quebec City are not compatible with travel times which would allow it to be competitive against other modes…
Allandale25
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Video of the new consist with the unique livery.