Classic route
VIA Jonquière
Montréal → Jonquière · Canada
- Distance
- 510 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 9 h
- Average speed
- 57 km/h
- Top speed
- 105 km/h
- Operator
- VIA Rail
- Train
- VIA corridor coaches
- Countries
- Canada
- In service since
- 1893
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
A flag-stop wilderness train: nine hours through Laurentides lake country few roads reach, to the Saguenay fjord railhead of Jonquière.
How this line was checked
- The 504 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 7493290 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within 51 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 13 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of VIA Rail
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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