TIMMINS — Although it may not be a top priority for voters across Ontario, nearly every election candidate in the northeast is talking about the idea of bringing back the Northlander passenger train service.
The provincially owned Ontario Northland Railway operated the Northlander train between 1976 and 2012. It departed from Union Station in downtown Toronto and terminated more than 700 kilometres north in Cochrane — until Dalton McGuinty’s Liberal government cut it and replaced the Northlander with buses, arguing that the province could no longer afford to pay a hefty subsidy for a train service that was seldom packed with passengers.
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