VIA Rail plans to add 6 afternoon trains on the North Mainline by 2011
GO published their final Environmental Assessment documents this week and within was some interesting information about VIA Rail’s planned improvements. After some heavy reading, the following was published in Appendix B:
VIA Rail plans to add six new trains to the North Mainline, London to Toronto via Kitchener and Guelph. Trains departing from London at 1155, 1505, 1755, and departing from Toronto at 1300, 1630, 1830. This plan would provide off-peak service during the afternoons, and seems to avoid GO “Rush Hour”.
Very interesting news, as if this comes to pass we stand to have 12 VIA Rail and 8 GO Transit departures and arrivals per day by 2011, more than double today’s passenger rail service.
- Steve
(Update: The link to the raw documents can be found here)
Comment by Michael
July 23, 2009 @ 12:30 am
Ten trains a day in each direction is really good news — there will actually be a decent chance that taking the train will be feasible for a one-off trip. I think that come 2011, the demand will quickly precipitate more service, hopefully including late evening.