VIA Rail Canada

VIA Rail GTFS Schedule Feed

VIA Rail's complete national timetable published as a static General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) archive, offered for download from the VIA Rail Developer Resources page with no registration, no API key and no rate limit. The July 9th 2026 edition covers a 20260709-20261107 service window and carries 19 routes, 388 stations, 85 trips, 1,577 stop times and 86,116 shape points, plus the GTFS ticketing extension files ticketing_identifiers.txt and ticketing_deep_links.txt that map each stop to a four-letter VIA station mnemonic and each trip to a VIA train number. Downloading the file binds the consumer to the Open Government Licence - Canada version 2.0, which permits copying, modification, distribution and commercial use for any lawful purpose subject to attribution. This is the only machine-readable contract VIA Rail publishes.

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aid: via-rail:via-rail-gtfs-schedule-feed
name: VIA Rail GTFS Schedule Feed
description: VIA Rail's complete national timetable published as a static General Transit Feed Specification
  (GTFS) archive, offered for download from the VIA Rail Developer Resources page with no registration,
  no API key and no rate limit. The July 9th 2026 edition covers a 20260709-20261107 service window and
  carries 19 routes, 388 stations, 85 trips, 1,577 stop times and 86,116 shape points, plus the GTFS ticketing
  extension files ticketing_identifiers.txt and ticketing_deep_links.txt that map each stop to a four-letter
  VIA station mnemonic and each trip to a VIA train number. Downloading the file binds the consumer to
  the Open Government Licence - Canada version 2.0, which permits copying, modification, distribution
  and commercial use for any lawful purpose subject to attribution. This is the only machine-readable
  contract VIA Rail publishes.
humanURL: https://www.viarail.ca/en/developer-resources
baseURL: https://www.viarail.ca/sites/all/files/gtfs/viarail.zip
tags:
- GTFS
- Schedules
- Timetables
- Transit
- Open Data
- Rail
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.viarail.ca/en/developer-resources
- type: GTFS
  url: gtfs/viarail-gtfs.zip
- type: Download
  url: https://www.viarail.ca/sites/all/files/gtfs/viarail.zip
- type: License
  url: https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada
- type: Specification
  url: https://github.com/google/transit/blob/master/gtfs/spec/en/reference.md
- type: Email
  url: mailto:dev@viarail.ca
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/via-rail-gtfs-schema.json
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/via-rail-data-model.yml