Via Rail
Sign in to saveAlso known as Via Rail Canada Inc., Via Rail Canada, VIA Rail Canada Inc., Via, VIA
national inter-city passenger rail operator in Canada owned by the Canadian government
Key facts
- Main region
- Canada
- Reporting mark
- VIA
- Dates of operation
- January 12, 1977 – present
- Predecessor
- Passenger services operated by the Canadian National Railway and the Canadian Pacific Railway , as well as other smaller companies
- Track gauge
- 1,435 mm ( 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in ) standard gauge
- Length
- 12,500 kilometres (7,800 mi)
- Company type
- Crown corporation
- Industry
- Rail transport
- Founded
- January 12, 1977 ; 49 years ago ( 1977-01-12 )
- Headquarters
- Place Ville Marie , Montreal , Quebec , Canada
- Key people
- Jonathan Goldbloom ( Chairman ) Mario Péloquin ( CEO ) until January 2026 Steven MacKinnon ( minister responsible )
- Revenue
- CA$ 430.7 million (2023)
- Operating income
- CA$−381.8 million (2023)
- Total assets
- CA$2.868 billion (2023)
- Number of employees
- 3,668 (2023)
- Subsidiaries
- Alto
- Website
- www .viarail .ca /en
via Wikipedia infobox
Described at
Organization Profile - VIA Rail Canada Inc. - Canada.ca
Organization Profile - VIA Rail Canada Inc.
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Canada
- Headquarters
- Montreal
- Owned by
- Canada
- Employees
- 3248
- Revenue
- 99900000
- Follows
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Official website
- www.viarail.ca/fr
- Image
- VIA Rail Train London Ontario.jpg
- Significant event
- Hinton train collision
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- Commons gallery
- Via Rail
- Commons category
- Via Rail
- inception
- 1977-01-12
- location of formation
- Montreal
- item operated
- railway network
- short name
- VIA
- hashtag
- viarail
- official blog URL
- blogue.viarail.ca
- phone number
- +1-888-842-7245
- operating area
- New York
- reporting mark
- VIA
- patronage
- 1203100
- uses
- railway track
- sponsor
- Transport Canada
- date of official opening
- 1977-00-00
- track gauge
- standard-gauge railway
- social media followers
- 14200
- described at URL
- canadamodern.org/via-rail-tm46
- IATA airline designator
- 2R
- regulated by
- Transport Canada
- external auditor
- Auditor General of Canada
- significant person
- Pierre Trudeau
- owner of
- Kingston station
- location information URL
- www.viarail.ca/en/explore-our-destinations/find-a-train-station
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Encyclopedic overview
Via Rail Canada Inc. (/ˈviːə/; reporting mark VIA), operating as Via Rail (stylized as VIA Rail), is a Canadian federal Crown corporation that operates intercity passenger rail service in Canada.
As of December 2023, Via Rail operates 406 trains per week across eight Canadian provinces and 12,500 kilometres (7,800 mi) of track, 97 percent of which is owned and maintained by other railway companies, mostly by Canadian National Railway (CN). Via Rail carried approximately 4.1 million passengers in 2023, 96 percent of which were along the Corridor routes connecting the major cities of the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor, and had an on-time performance of 85.4 per cent. Attracting international tourism forms an important part of Via Rail's long distance trans-continental services.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Via Rail” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.