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Originally Posted by swimmer_spe
What I meant is that if you are traveling to or from a Corridor station, the system seems to be set up for booking for that. Hence why you could pick any Corridor station and not need to do multi city, but try a non Corridor station to another non Corridor station and it needs the multi city.
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This has nothing to do with VIA’s reservation system treating Corridor or Non-Corridor connections differently and all with it being configured in a way which surpresses connections between any two VIA services which would require an overnight layover:
- It will allow you to book QBEC to SARN (a Corridor transfer) on weekdays, because train 33 connects with 65 in MTRL, which connects with 87 in TRTO.
- However, it will
not allow you to book QBEC to SARN on weekends (because 35 as the earliest train from QBEC misses 65 and thus 87) or on any day from SARN to QBEC (because 87 arrives TRTO too late for 64, which is the latest train of the day to connect with train 28 as the last train to QBEC), even though these are also Corridor-to-Corridor connections.
- Similarly, it will allow you to book TRTO to HLFX (because 64 connects with 14 in MTRL) and HLFX to TRTO (because 15 connects with 65 in MTRL), a Corridor-to-Longhaul connection.
- However, it will
not sell you MTRL to VCVR (because the Canadian departs TRTO before the first train from Montreal arrives) or VCVR to MTRL (because VIA apparently doesn’t think that 3.5 hours is long enough to allow for a reliable transfer to 668 as the last train of the day), which are Corridor-to-Longhaul connections just like TRTO-MTRL-HLFX.
Interestingly, it does allow you to book some connections with layover between the Canadian and Remote services (TRTO-WNPG-CHUR & v.v., TRTO-JASP-PRUP & v.v. or VCVR-JASP-PRUP), but not others (VCVR-WNPG-CHUR & v.v. or PRUP-JASP-VCVR). If anything, the reservation system is more accommodating with non-Corridor connections than with those involving Corridor trains, which is the opposite of what you claim…