Canada’s passenger operator Via Rail launched a strategic plan earlier this summer. Mark Simmons, Deputy Editor of IRJ, a Railway Age sister publication, talks exclusively to president and CEO Mario ...

VIA Rail, Canada’s national passenger rail service, launches a request for qualifications (RFQ) for its Dorval Hub Project. Also, construction for a transit-oriented development (TOD) project begins ...

Canada’s national rail passenger service VIA Rail Canada has revealed the initial trainset of its new fleet that will operate on the Québec City–Windsor corridor. The first 32 new trains of VIA Rail’s ...

Plans are being drafted in Canada for a proposed high-speed train line running through Québec City, Trois-Rivières, Laval, Montréal, Ottawa, Peterborough, and Toronto. The VIA high-frequency rail (HFR ...

Via Rail has offered $31 million in travel vouchers to hundreds of thousands of passengers whose trains were more than one hour late since last fall, mostly as a result of new speed limits at rail ...

LINZ, Austria--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In 2018, VIA Rail commissioned Siemens Mobility to supply next-generation push-pull trains. In addition to delivering the trains, a broad scope of contractual ...