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Reportage à CTV News
Delays could be more common for Via Rail passengers amid new speed restrictions
New speed restrictions on the tracks could lead to more delays for travellers on Via Rail. CTV’s Katie Griffin explains.
CN, a gift that keeps on giving. I’m wondering if they have plans to accomodate the venture sets and their lower axel counts by upgrading signalling equipment and crossings, or if the corridor is just disabled for an indefinite period now. Because if the only option to run trains that are less than 50 years old is to run them excessively long, or deal with 30 min delays each run, I don’t think there is a future for intercity rail on these tracks🙃
This is the problem with being a tenant on critical infrastructure. CN (slumlord) can basically just say whatever, we’re not sure how critical or true it is, and now intercity rail is basically handicapped for the time being. These trains have been running for a while now and it’s suddenly a surprise that they’re not triggering crossing gates…
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I have to ask, could we not have the corridor split between Dorval and gc? Since the issue is explicitly between both?
Have the qc bound train end at gc and the ottawa/Toronto end at Dorval and we would be done.
Travel between both if we have people doing wc ottawa for example can be accommodated with a modified 747 to go to dorval before the airport or using the via current Dorval yul shuttles
Les passagers de VIA Rail devront s’armer de patience dans les prochains jours, alors que les trains roulent au ralenti dans le populaire corridor Québec-Windsor, résultat d’un différend avec le Canadian National.
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Ce que l’article ne mentionne pas c’est que le CN ne peut expliquer pourquoi ses systèmes ne “pourraient” pas fonctionner (dans certains secteurs) à la suite d’un incident qui a eu lieu il y a 20 ans. Pendant qu’on se gratte la tête, tout tombe au ralenti.
The quest to counteract ‘loss of shunt:’ Special Report - Trains
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This is the problem with being a tenant on critical infrastructure.
cough Nationalize. cough cough
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Which issue are you refering to in this instance? We’re not talking about the Venture sets and the level crossings, right?
ah, i read somewhere that there was an issue between dorval and GC, and assumed it was only there the issue. re-read the news and its all over CN rail.
« À la suite des évènements du 31 août impliquant le train 622, VIA Rail […] s’engage à améliorer ses pratiques pour assurer qu’un tel évènement, bien qu’isolé, ne se reproduise pas », affirme le conseiller aux affaires publiques de la société d’État fédérale, Karl Helou, dans un courriel.
Le 31 août dernier, en plein long week-end de la fête du Travail, un trajet en train entre Montréal et Québec, qui devait prendre 3 heures, a duré près de 14 heures.
En raison de deux problèmes mécaniques, de nombreux passagers se sont retrouvés coincés pendant 10 heures dans le train, sans se voir offrir de solutions de rechange. Le train suivant aurait, quant à lui, mis près de 9 heures pour faire le même trajet.
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C’est sûr mais si l’article est exact VIA a été prévenue depuis 2022 qu’ils devaient avoir 32 essieux et un rappel leur a été fait en mars… personne chez VIA ne devrait être surpris aujourd’hui.
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Ottawa - Dorval cette semaine, sans anicroche (arrivés à temps !). Le chef de train a cependant averti les passagers qui voyagaient jusqu’à Québec de s’attendre à des délais. Il expliquait que la section OTT/DORV est appartenue par Via tandis que c’est le CN plus à l’est. Assez bizarre cette chose de “loss of shunt” chez le CN. J’ai du mal à comprendre pourquoi on ne peut pas ajuster les “Grade Crossing Predictors” convenablement.
Huh, so i guess viarail has no issues with CN’s Baie-d’urfe and beauropaire crossings
Heading to OTT (last Sunday), the train was delayed by 30 min. Maybe things are awry in one direction and not the other(?).
I mean. I would nationalize the network but not the companies themselves. CN and CP are fine operating their yards and their trains. What is not okay is that they pretty much dictate what other operators can do or not do because they own the tracks.
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Agreed.
Buy the main lines for $1 in exchange for a 20-year exclusivity contract to operate freight on the lines they previously owned, with the possibility of merging some redundancies (ex in the West Island, put all CP/CN freight on the CN lines and use the CP lines for exo and VIA).
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I don’t know about Baie-d’Urfé crossing, but having worked in the past on reprogramming the traffic lights on the interchange between Highway 20, Elm Street, Beaurepaire Drive and Woodland Avenue near Beaurepaire train station, since those traffic lights are interconnected to the railroad crossing, CN doesn’t use Grade Crossing Predictors.
CP however uses Grade Crossing Predictors at Woodland Avenue crossing, which is not an issue for VIA, since VIA uses CN tracks, but is somehow an issue for Exo trains since Exo trains slow down before stopping at the Beaurepaire train station next to the crossing, and I noticed that the Grade Crossing Predictors can have dfficulties (althought rarely) to predict when the train will arrive in order to properly put a call for railroad preemption on the traffic lights in order to clear the crossing and activate the gates and flashing lights.
If people want to know more about how railroad crossing works, Grade Crossing Predictors and railroad preemption on traffic lights, here’s a very informative video that @grimley osted before:
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Yea the woodland crossing lights programming is a work of art that i have memorized permanently… I lived there so don’t blame me
Back to the subject, so we would still have the axel issue with beauropaire… And IDK how ViaHXR will be able to not have to deal with the grade crossing… We already lowered the highway and i can’t see us rase the whole interchange…
Baie-d’urfe is a pedestrian crossing, City vehicle and EMS crossing
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Ok i can confirm that we had to drop to 60km/h at beauropaire and baie-d’urfe crossings, 30 km/h on the Ile perrot & dorion bridge
80km/h on the Ile perrot train crossing