🇨🇦 Operator
Train routes operated by VIA Rail Canada
4 routes · classic 4
VIA Rail Canada runs 4 of the routes in the World Train Map atlas, 1,447 km of railway across 1 country. The longest is the VIA Rail Corridor at 541 km; the fastest is the VIA Rail Corridor, running up to 160 km/h; the oldest line it runs over here opened in 1978.
The company itself dates to 1977, filed on Wikidata as a railway company. What this page says about the company comes from VIA Rail Canada's own Wikidata item, checked against the countries its routes here actually cross before any of it is used; everything about the railway is counted from this atlas. Official site ↗ · Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata Q876720 ↗
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- 4
- Total length
- 1,447 km
- Countries
- Canada
- Fastest
- VIA Rail Corridor · 160 km/h
- Longest
- VIA Rail Corridor · 541 km
- Oldest line here
- 1978
- Company founded
- 1977
- Type
- railway company
Classic (4)
- VIA Rail Corridor
Rides the Grand Trunk main line of 1856, which once cut the Toronto–Montreal journey from five days to fourteen hours.
Wikipedia ↗ - VIA Rail Corridor
VIA’s new Siemens Venture trainsets made their Toronto debut on this Ottawa run in October 2024, cruising at up to 160 km/h.
Wikipedia ↗ - VIA Rail Corridor
The quickest run reaches Québec City’s château-style Gare du Palais in about 2 h 43 min, tracing the south shore of the St. Lawrence.
Wikipedia ↗ - VIA Rail Corridor
Its own railway rather than any part of the Toronto line: east through Casselman and Alexandria, joining the Montreal main line at Coteau. Five trains a day.
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Photos via Wikimedia Commons — each route page credits the author & licence
How many train routes does VIA Rail Canada run?
4 of the routes in this atlas are VIA Rail Canada services, covering 1,447 km across 1 country (Canada). That is what this atlas draws, not the operator's whole network — a national railway runs thousands of local services no map of notable journeys would list.
What is the fastest VIA Rail Canada train?
The VIA Rail Corridor, Toronto to Montreal, at up to 160 km/h. Its fastest scheduled run takes 4 h 56 min over 541 km.
Does VIA Rail Canada run night trains?
Not in this atlas. All 4 VIA Rail Canada routes listed here are daytime services.
When was VIA Rail Canada founded?
Wikidata records the company's inception as 1977, and files it as a railway company. The oldest railway it runs over in this atlas opened in 1978 — the line and the company are rarely the same age, and this page dates both.
Countries VIA Rail Canada runs in
- 🇨🇦 Train routes in Canada 21 routes
Other operators in Canada
- VIA Rail 6 routes