More than 4 million passengers travel by rail each year, a total distance of about 1.5 billion kilometres.

Canada's rail system moves over 300 million tonnes of cargo each year.

There are approximately 55,000 public, private and pedestrian highway/railway crossings in Canada.

There are 13 commuter rail lines in total in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. Commuter trains handled 58.6 million passengers in 2006.