Canadian Railroads > Today's "Oceans" will operate a day late

This notice appears on VIA's Website: Alert:April 21, 2019: Trains 14 and 15 are cancelled between Montréal and Halifax due to flooding in the Matapedia area which make the tracks non-operational. Please note that trains 14 and 15 will now leave on April 22nd, 2019.
 

Yes...a yearly event in New Brunswick and Quebec.

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1496879683812

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1496879683812

Go back 30 years or so and it was spring flooding that essentially ended CP operations in the Saint John River Valley with the loss of a couple of bridges.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/22/19 02:06 by ghCBNS.

Does anybody know what happened with this?  I tried to see what time 14 would arrive in Halifax today, and the VIA website seemed to indicate that it wasn't running today at all.  Does that mean 14 and 15 didn't leave yesterday after all, or the website arrivals section can't deal with trains on the "off" days.  If VIA still has a notice on the website about cancelled trains, it's very well hidden.

GTD

cn6218 Wrote:
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> Does anybody know what happened with this?  I
> tried to see what time 14 would arrive in Halifax
> today, and the VIA website seemed to indicate that
> it wasn't running today at all.  Does that mean
> 14 and 15 didn't leave yesterday after all, or the
> website arrivals section can't deal with trains on
> the "off" days.  If VIA still has a notice on the
> website about cancelled trains, it's very well
> hidden.
>
> GTD

They did operate a day late as promised.  Number 14 disappeared from the tracking system after Sackville at 1619, almost two hours late. Number 15 did well, arriving in Montreal on time.