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Originally Posted by Dengler Avenue
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I'm curios what people are expecting from a train in terms of schedule. Looking at
this schedule (not sure the year, but it was during the Bill Davis years and used the Trans-European (TEE) trainsets so it would be late 70's or early 80's), there were 2 trains a day, 6 days a week, to North Bay with 1 of them continuing to Timmins and it took about 4:45 to get to North Bay and 10:30 to get to Timmins. I'm not sure, but I expect that would be the gold standard for what we might happen.
Compared to the existing bus service, the train had fewer stops than the express buses and they can get to North Bay in about 4:30. From North Bay to Timmons, the bus takes about 5:30, so if they wanted to replicate the train service with a bus, they could probably do it in about 10 hours and it would cost a lot less.
I get that in poor weather the train would be safer and more reliable, and it would likely be more comfortable for those riding it, but I don't think anyone would be happy with the service that we would actually get.