Search results

Rather coincidentally, I've seen that train #51 has been stopping at Port Hope since February 4, which restores the weekday westbound stop in Port Hope (but not Napanee): Also, frequencies will increase again, as of March 1: https://groups.io/g/Canadian-Passenger-Rail/message/93377

No worries, there are also Canadians familiar with the area who seem to agree with what you are saying: https://groups.io/g/Canadian-Passenger-Rail/message/93302?p=%2C%2C%2C20%2C0%2C0%2C0%3A%3ACreated%2C%2CNapanee%2C20%2C2%2C0%2C88405185

If anything, it's an anti-bus attitude, because as much as I prefer trains and would love to explore every corner of this country by rail, as a taxpayer I'm realistic enough to concede that buses offer much better value-for-money, except where you have to transport very high passenger loads, and...

Both, Ontario Northland Motor Coach Services and Air Canada, link the terminal cities of both services, Winnipeg and Sudbury, with Toronto. I know this is a forum for rail fans, but other modes than rail and car do exist, even here in "Tsarist" Canada...

Whereas I do agree with the rest of your post, I am struggling to understand how you imagine running Sudbury-White River with anything else than the RDCs: Given that a) there remains only one place in Canada which maintains expertise in how to maintain RDCs and that happens to be located in...

What exactly should VIA (on behalf of the federal government) be doing in your opinion? Cutting the last remaining weekly (as in once every seven days) service to communities without road access, just because the demand is currently not there to offer the cities along the Quebec-Windsor corridor...

Service Pre-pandemic Ramp-down Ramp-up MTRL-HLFX (Ocean) 3 times per week suspended on 2020-03-13 once per week as of 2021-08-11 2 times per week as of 2021-12-08 MTRL-HERV-JONQ/SENN 3 times per week once per week, as of 2020-03-23 TRTO-WNPG-VCVR (Canadian) 2 times per week (3 times per...

Sipping a glass of wine over a period of 30 minutes of continuous mask removal vs. taking off your mask for 15 seconds to take a big gulp out of your water bottle. Admittedly, this also makes the case for banning tea, coffee, juice and soft drinks (i.e. all drinks but water, preferably of the...

The departure time would have been 11pm on any evening and the arrival time at 7:25am (7:45am until April 26) on the fourth morning after, resulting in a travel time of 83:25h (thus 4 nights and three days). You will find the timings on the left side and consists (never heard the word "rake"...

That is almost inevitable on a common carrier which allows people to move around en-route. However, how do you want to avoid that people use the seats as reference points when navigating across the car and therefore miss the tripping hazard posed by your side table? I’m not saying your idea is...

So that passengers passing by the corridor accidentally knock over your drink - or trip and fall over your side table?

The consist of the Canadian is described in a fair bit of detail on VIA's webpage for the Canadian: https://www.viarail.ca/en/explore-our-destinations/trains/rockies-and-pacific/toronto-vancouver-canadian/train-cars The last car of the Canadian is the Park car (car number #39), which houses the...

This is exactly the point almost all North Americans miss when they contrast passenger railroading in places like Europe with those at home: HSR is nothing more than the icing on the cake. According to the most recent Statistical Pocketbook of the European Commission, High Speed Rail accounted...

Those Sleeper passengers I met on board my two trips on board the Canadian and half a dozen trips on the Ocean overwhelmingly fitted the „Retirees“ category, but I do concede that we must consider a Survivor Bias, as you will only meet people on board a train which can make its schedule work for...

Indeed, the current schedule forces on-train staff (based in Halifax, IIRC) to layover for 36 (Thu/Fri, Sat/Sun) or even 50 (Mon/Tue/Wed) hours in Montreal before returning and similar staffing inefficiencies exist with Locomotive Engineers (though not between Sainte-Foy and Campbellton, as...

Indeed, I’m not aware of any other railroads publishing that kind of Management Accounting figures, which would allow to estimate whether a service increase would let revenues rise faster than costs or not… I highly doubt it: in peak season, almost all available revenue cars (Sleepers and...

Amen, and it’s not much better North of the border…

The implicit assumption that nobody depends on public transportation, as everyone can afford car ownership or taking a taxi, sounds much more American than British to me - and it‘s just as shamefully incorrect in either country and on any day of the year (but especially on what is one of the two...

What if I told you that (apart from track maintenance crews), no railroader in the UK has to go on strike to get Christmas off? No trains will run on Christmas or Boxing Day as usual, while engineering work over the festive period will disrupt services into stations including Leeds, Bristol...

Only as long as you don’t need the space of the loop track for container storage…