Via Rail's Maritime service is back, despite aging N.B. tracks
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New Brunswickers can once again travel by train to the rest of Canada, if they're willing to embark on a lengthy journey of nearly 18 hours from Moncton to Montreal.
Via Rail's Ocean line, which runs from Montreal to Halifax, was temporarily suspended for more than a year in response to the pandemic.
Passenger trains returned on Aug. 11 with once-a-week service, including regular stops at stations in Moncton, Miramichi, Bathurst and Campbellton. But they're forced to reduce speeds to under 50 kilometres per hour on a stretch of aging track between Rogersville and Bathurst.
Transport Action Atlantic, a public transportation advocacy group, has been pushing for federal funding to improve the route.
"Nothing's been done," said Ted Bartlett, the organization's president.
"The bottom line is it takes almost two hours longer now for the train to go from Moncton to Campbellton than it did 20 years ago."
Tracks in northern New Brunswick have faced threats of closure over the past decade, with the province providing funds to Canadian National Railway to save sections facing imminent closure.
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