VIA Rail's Ocean line runs from Montreal to Halifax, including regular stops at four stations in New Brunswick. The Crown corporation is currently operating one train a week on the route.
Officials with Via Rail said starting June 19, the eastbound Ocean trip from Montreal to Halifax will take an extra 45 minutes, while 90 minutes has been added to the westbound trip from Halifax to Montreal.The eastbound Ocean train trip from Montreal to Halifax will now take an extra 45 minutes, while 90 minutes has been added to the westbound trip from Halifax to Montreal.
The Newcastle subdivision is a 278-kilometre stretch of track owned by CN Rail that runs from central to northern New Brunswick. Via Rail said it gave more than $18 million to CN in 2014 for repairs of a 71-kilometre section of the subdivision between Bathurst and Miramichi."These funds were spent exceptionally to maintain status quo for passenger rail service levels on the Ocean, as CN was considering the abandonment of that portion of the subdivision," the statement said.
He said because of the disrepair, trains are forced to "crawl" over some stretches at speeds "no faster than a walk." "And there's no shareholder value in investing in a track that's as lightly used as the Newcastle subdivision. So CN isn't going to do anything about it." "There's a really good business case for passenger rail in Canada, given we need to take some urgent drastic action to reduce the amount of emissions into the climate, into the atmosphere," he said.
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