MP says Stratford VIA Rail train ‘hasn’t been on time a single time this entire summer’. It was a summer of poor performance for VIA Rail in Stratford. Last week, Member of Parliament for Perth-Wellington John Nater released a letter to VIA Rail outlining how the rail service had a zero per cent on-time performance rate in St. Marys and Stratford. “I had one constituent say VIA Rail is never on time. I took that as kind of a bit of a joke, but when I looked at the actual data, it turned out that no, in fact, VIA Rail hasn’t been on time a single time this entire summer,” said Nater. According to VIA Rail, a trip that takes less than 4-hours is considered to be delayed if the train arrives more than 10 minutes past the scheduled time. Nater said between Canada Day and Labour Day trains were, on average, over an hour late arriving at Union Station in Toronto. VIA Rail runs a round trip from Stratford to Union Station daily. #ctv #ctvnews #ctvnewskitchener