After our daughter moved to Toronto, she and I made many trips on VIA Rail. For the most part, they were satisfactory experiences. However, a recent round trip was a nightmare. The 11:30 a.m. train ...

Via Rail passengers vented frustration about cancelled trips along the carrier’s Toronto-Ottawa and Toronto-Montreal routes, as a freight-train derailment and a messy winter storm upended their ...

Passenger train derailments that result in fatalities are still very rare in Canada, with one of the worst being more than 25 years ago. In 1986, a freight train collided with a passenger train in ...

Via Rail has offered $31 million in travel vouchers to hundreds of thousands of passengers whose trains were more than one hour late since last fall, mostly as a result of new speed limits at rail ...

Federal Transport Minister Omar Alghabra was not personally in contact with officials at Via Rail during the Christmas winter storm that left hundreds of passengers stranded for hours on a disabled ...

Before getting into the details of being 16 hours late on a cross-country train trip, here’s some Via Rail policy news: Via Rail has responded to on-time troubles with some of its passenger trains by ...

MONTREAL — Passengers riding on Via Rail's most heavily travelled corridor may endure a slower trip after Canadian National Railway Co. imposed restrictions on Via's new trains. CN last Friday said ...

Like many people, Natalie Crenna moved from a major city to a smaller town during the COVID-19 pandemic for affordable housing and to live near family. But now she's wondering if she has to move back ...

The Transportation Safety Board (TSB) has determined that a train crash just outside of Kingston, Ont., last year may have been the result of human error and a lack ...

Passengers riding on Via Rail’s most heavily travelled corridor may endure a slower trip after Canadian National Railway Co. imposed restrictions on Via’s new trains. CN last Friday said Via’s ...