Night train route
The Canadian
Toronto → Vancouver · Canada
The Canadian in pictures
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- Distance
- 4,466 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 4 days
- Average speed
- 47 km/h
- Top speed
- 130 km/h
- Operator
- VIA Rail
- Train
- Budd stainless dome cars
- Countries
- Canada
- In service since
- 1955
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Four nights in 1955 stainless-steel dome cars. Ontario lakeland, prairie infinity, then the Rockies at dawn.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 10411281 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 224 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 93.2% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 62 m); the longest stretch away from it is 15 km
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits 0.3 km from the shape of VIA Rail
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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