Night train route
Ocean
Montréal → Halifax · Canada
- Distance
- 1,346 km
- Fastest time
- 24 h
- Average speed
- 56 km/h
- Top speed
- 130 km/h
- Operator
- VIA Rail
- Train
- Renaissance
- Countries
- Canada
- In service since
- 1904
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
North America’s oldest continuously named train, since 1904: overnight past the Matapédia salmon rivers and Chaleur Bay to the Atlantic.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1483012 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 38 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 10 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of VIA Rail
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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