Classic route
VIA Rail Corridor
Ottawa → Montreal · Canada
VIA Rail Corridor in pictures
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- Distance
- 186 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 5 min
- Average speed
- 89 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- VIA Rail Canada
- Train
- Siemens Venture
- Countries
- Canada
- In service since
- 1978
- Runs
- 5× daily
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
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.
Ottawa and Montreal are joined by their own railway rather than by any part of the Toronto line: trains run east out of Ottawa through Casselman and Alexandria, meet the Montreal main line at Coteau, and come in along the Lac Saint-Louis shore through Dorval. Five trains a day each way, the quickest booked at 2 h 5 min for 186 km.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 8222333 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- 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
Along the way
- Casselman
- Alexandria’s brick station
- Coteau junction
- Lac Saint-Louis shore at Dorval
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