Book your tickets now for travel during the school break

TORONTO, March 10 /CNW Telbec/ - March Break is almost here and seats are going fast! VIA Rail Canada wishes to encourage those planning on travelling this weekend to purchase their tickets as soon as possible to ensure availability and to take advantage of the best fares available. Discount fares are still available on certain departures just ahead of March Break. To help travelers make the most of their trip, kids, youth, students and travellers 60 years of age and over can also benefit from special discounts and savings. Read the full story

EMC News - It’s all aboard for a new VIA Rail train station for Smiths Falls.

While it was stated last fall that the town was among the communities, including Montreal, Windsor and Oshawa, where a new station was planned, that announcement was made official on Monday afternoon with the unveiling of plans for the Smiths Falls project inside the current station building. Read the full story

SMITHS FALLS, ON, March 5 /CNW Telbec/ - Media are invited to attend a short media briefing at the Smiths Falls VIA Rail train station. Mayor Dennis W. Staples, Mr. Michael Murphy, Vice-president, Public Affairs, Canadian Pacific Railway and Mr. Magdy Fahmy, VIA Rail Canada’s Senior Director, Purchasing and Real Estate, will be announcing an important investment in the Smiths Falls VIA Rail station and the rail infrastructure. Read the full story

The federal government is investing $6.3 million in a new Via Rail station in Windsor, Ont.

The station is to be built by the fall of 2011 near the existing site at the foot of Walker Road, a news release says.

The Walkerville station was built by Canadian National in the early 1960s and expanded by Via in 1982. The majority of the funding for the station replacing it will come from the federal economic action plan. Read the full story

High Speed Rail Canada has added two VIA Rail high speed rail studies to their website. One in english and the other in french.

High Speed Rail Canada, http://highspeedrail.ca (HSRC) a citizen’s national advocacy group dedicated to the education on, and the implementation of, high speed trains in Canada, has made available to the public for the first time; Read the full story

Take the train, coos VIA Rail Canada, and the come-on is appealing. After all, is there a more comfortable way to travel?

Unlike the airplane, you arrive at a downtown station (no $30 taxi ride to a suburban airport) minutes before departure. No need to check your nail file and clear security; just hop aboard. Read the full story