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Originally Posted by someone123
It would be interesting to see the old schedules. There used to be a train called The Atlantic along with The Ocean and it seems both went to Halifax daily, so it seems there were 2 Halifax-Moncton trains per day along with 1 for SJ. From Halifax you could also go to Yarmouth, Sydney, or the Annapolis Valley by train (I think the valley train may have ended earlier? Not sure).
In theory there's Maritime Bus and VIA today but the schedules are very minimal and VIA is expensive for what it is. I don't think a full rail network makes sense these days but a Halifax-Moncton-SJ train, maybe one day connecting to Amtrak, would be great. I don't think The Ocean serves the region very well and fundamentally it won't be great to try to put Halifax-Moncton service on part of a Halifax-Montreal train that goes via northern NB.
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There’s surprisingly limited info I was able to find on the web about these trains. There may have been three routings but I don’t know. I thought one went up to Quebec via the eastern coastline track through NB going thru places like Bathurst; I thought another went through Fredericton and Woodstock before going into Quebec; and I thought there might have been a third that sent passengers through Saint John before shortcutting through Northen Maine before returning to Canada in Quebec. But I just don’t know.
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