Via Rail (Canada)

Advantages: Beautiful scenery, comfort, great service, great food
Disadvantages: Some delays

...etc you can expect from Via and partly about our specific journeys with the company. Just to warn, this is a long review, but I hope it's helpful. Oh and just for reference its pronounced vee-a WHAT IS VIA? Via Rail is Canada's national passenger train company. It runs trains through most of Canada's regions except Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island and Labrador. FARES AND SERVICES: There are two classes on Via trains, Comfort Class (economy) ...
...$1689 for a room. Via does offer various discounts, including student, senior, child and early booking. When we went we decided that we would get a rail pass. We ended up getting a North American Rail Pass (NARP) which covered any train on Via Rail and Amtrak. This worked out to be a fantastic deal. The NARP gives you 30 days unlimited rail travel on any Via or Amtrak train. It costs $1149 at peak time and $815 off peak. As two students we paid ... Read review

Advantages: More than just travel details
Disadvantages: Oh God! He's a train spotter!

...to introduce the likes of Penzance-Paris sleepers have also fallen by the wayside, and the ‘European Nightstock’ as the sleeper coaches were known, was being sold to VIA-Rail in Canada, or at the last time I’d heard of them, they were. When in London, the trains are ‘garaged’ and serviced at a new-build site next to the Paddington main line at Wormwood Scrubs, known exotically as North Pole Depot, and serve to taunt all who travel past as a stark reminder that you can’t get on one of these at Paddington! THAT TUNNEL ‘THING’ The tunnel is 31 miles in length of which only 23 are under water – the nature of the steel-on-steel contact of train wheels demands that long ramps are needed, hence the 4 mile slope at each end. The Channel Tunnel itself is dismissed in a mere 20 minutes or so at around 100 mph. It has to be remembered that the tunnel... Read review

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Advantages: see more of america, friendly staff, friendly passengers, good food
Disadvantages: always run late,not much sleep on overnight trains

...off , have a fag, but when that horn sounds get back on, once the door lock thats it! How Much? well see list below for sample fares and passes. I think it's good value. New York- Washington The "Acela Express" 1st class £95.00(inc. meal) Wasington-Chicago "Capitol Limited" coach class £115 standard sleeper £218 deluxe spleeper £324 Rail Pass peak may-oct adult £605 child £495 This is the go anywhere pass for Amtrak and VIA (canada) in coach class. On standard tickets children 2-15 50% reduction some reductions for over 62's So there we are america at 20ft and 45MPH , see alot more, and meet more people.... Read review

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