Farlane Railway Station
Farlane railway station is located in the community of Farlane, Ontario, Farlane in Unorganized Kenora District, Unorganized Kenora District in Northwestern Ontario, northwestern Ontario, Canada. The railway station, station is on the Canadian National Railway Transcontinental railroad, transcontinental Main line (railway), main line and is in use by Via Rail as a stop for transcontinental ''Canadian (train), Canadian'' trains. The station was built in the 1920s, mainly to serve recreational cottage community around Farlane and nearby lakes which were only accessible by rail. Located at Mile 113.4 of the Redditt Subdivision of the Canadian National, it was built as a standard Design No. 3 of the National Transcontinental Railway, it was typical of stations intended for remote cottage communities, it contained a waiting room, baggage and an operator's telegraph bay. The station has been unstaffed for many years but received some maintenance from cottagers to serve as a shelter wit ...
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Via Rail
Via Rail Canada Inc. (), operating as Via Rail or Via, is a Canadian Crown corporation that is mandated to operate intercity passenger rail service in Canada. It receives an annual subsidy from Transport Canada to offset the cost of operating services connecting remote communities. Via Rail operates over 500 trains per week across eight Canadian provinces and of track, 97 per cent of which is owned and maintained by other railway companies, mostly by Canadian National Railway (CN). Via Rail carried approximately 4.39 million passengers in 2017, the majority along the ''Corridor'' routes connecting the major cities of the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor, and had an on-time performance of 73 per cent. History Background Yearly passenger levels on Canada's passenger trains peaked at 60 million during World War II. Following the war the growth of air travel and the personal automobile caused significant loss of mode share for Canada's passenger train operators. By the ...
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