Via Rail returns to full service for Windsor-Toronto corridor

Windsor's Via Rail station in Windsor, Ont., on Wednesday, March 16, 2016. (Stefanie Masotti / CTV Windsor)

Good news for train travellers in Windsor.

Via Rail is returning to full service this week in the Windsor-London-Toronto corridor. Three out of five trains along the route were paused in January due to the rise of COVID-19 cases.

The additional trains will resume on June 9.

"More options, the schedule was a little bit distant between trains, now there's more options for travellers to take an earlier train, and do maybe a same-day shopping in Toronto or in London, or anywhere they choose to go," VIA Rail’s Vladimir Jean-Pierre tells AM800 News.

He says there is more demand now that the pandemic restrictions have eased.

Jean-Pierre says there are some London- Toronto segments that have not been put back in service yet and VIA is waiting on market demands, however, no trains have been cancelled only on hold due to the pandemic.

The mask mandate for staff and riders will remain in place on all VIA Rail trains.