🇨🇦 Operator
Train routes operated by VIA Rail
6 routes · classic 3 · night train 2 · scenic 1
VIA Rail runs 6 of the routes in the World Train Map atlas, 9,663 km of railway across 1 country. The longest is the The Canadian at 4,466 km; the fastest is the The Canadian, running up to 130 km/h; the oldest line it runs over here opened in 1885.
The company itself dates to 1977, filed on Wikidata as a railway company. What this page says about the company comes from VIA Rail'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 ↗
Open the world railway map →- Routes here
- 6
- Total length
- 9,663 km
- Countries
- Canada
- Fastest
- The Canadian · 130 km/h
- Longest
- The Canadian · 4,466 km
- Oldest line here
- 1885
- Company founded
- 1977
- Type
- railway company
Classic (3)
- Winnipeg–Churchill
Two nights across muskeg and permafrost to Churchill, the polar-bear-and-beluga town on Hudson Bay that no road reaches.
Wikipedia ↗ - VIA Jonquière
A flag-stop wilderness train: nine hours through Laurentides lake country few roads reach, to the Saguenay fjord railhead of Jonquière.
Wikipedia ↗ - Sudbury–White River
Canada’s last Budd RDC mainline train will flag-stop anywhere along 484 km of roadless Canadian Shield.
Wikipedia ↗
Night train (2)
- The Canadian
Four nights in 1955 stainless-steel dome cars. Ontario lakeland, prairie infinity, then the Rockies at dawn.
Wikipedia ↗ - Ocean
North America’s oldest continuously named train, since 1904: overnight past the Matapédia salmon rivers and Chaleur Bay to the Atlantic.
Wikipedia ↗
Scenic (1)
- Skeena
Two daylight days from the Rockies to the Pacific. Mount Robson, totem-pole country at Hazelton and the Skeena’s misty canyons, overnighting in Prince George.
Wikipedia ↗
Photos via Wikimedia Commons — each route page credits the author & licence
How many train routes does VIA Rail run?
6 of the routes in this atlas are VIA Rail services, covering 9,663 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 train?
The The Canadian, Toronto to Vancouver, at up to 130 km/h. Its fastest scheduled run takes ≈ 4 days over 4,466 km.
Does VIA Rail run night trains?
Yes — 2 sleeper services in this atlas: The Canadian (Toronto – Vancouver), Ocean (Montréal – Halifax).
When was VIA Rail 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 1885 — the line and the company are rarely the same age, and this page dates both.
Countries VIA Rail runs in
- 🇨🇦 Train routes in Canada 21 routes
Other operators in Canada
- VIA Rail Canada 4 routes