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The principal rail routes within the corridor are:

• Quebec City - Montreal (services to the south shore opposite Quebec City are not considered Corridor trains)
• Montreal - Ottawa
• Montreal - Brockville - Kingston - Belleville - Toronto
• Ottawa - Brockville - Kingston - Belleville - Toronto
• Toronto - Aldershot - St. Catharines - Niagara Falls, OntarioNiagara Falls, Ontario ( 2001 population 78,815) is a city located on the Niagara River, across from Niagara Falls, New York. It was incorporated on June 12, 1903. The city is dominated by the Niagara Falls, which bring hundreds of thousands of tourists t (with a joint VIA/ Amtrak service, the Maple Leaf, continuing Buffalo - Albany - New York)
• Toronto - Aldershot - Brantford - London - Windsor, Ontario
• Toronto - Guelph - Kitchener - London - Sarnia (with a joint VIA/Amtrak service, The International , continuing Flint - Battle Creek - Chicago)

(Aldershot station is in Burlington, but also serves passengers for Hamilton.)

For the most part these are all operated as independent routes, but a few trains continue beyond Toronto (not to the next main destination, but services such as Ottawa-Aldershot) or cross between the two routes running west from Toronto through London.

Services vary from two trains a day on routes such as Toronto - Niagara Falls up to a maximum of six day trains and one overnight train on the Montreal-Toronto run, much of which is also shared by Ottawa-Toronto trains. As well as the most frequent long-distance train service in Canada, this route is also the fastest, with services operated by Bombardier LRC trains at up to 100 mph.

Several plans have been proposed over the years for the creation of a High-speed rail line in this corridor. Some of the most recent ones are based on a variation of the Acela trains developed by Bombardier for Amtrak while others are based on the new JetTrain prototype turbine locomotive also developed by Bombardier.