Recent Blog Posts
- Temporary cost reduction of Step-Up
- OmniRide Adds Free VRE Shuttles During Metro's Summer Shutdown
- New Quantico VRE Feeder Service
- Lost and Found
- Receiving News and Delay Alerts
Latest Posts
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- Receiving News and Delay Alerts
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VRE embraces the world of social networking sites to both communicate and interact with our riders.
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- Receive Alert Messages: Tips for Registering for Train Talk
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Still not a member of VRE’s Train Talk news service? Why not? It only takes a couple of minutes to join. The program takes you through a series of steps so that you can customize your account and only receive alerts that are important to you.
- VRE's Plan B
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When rail traffic stops unexpectedly, we have one plan B and that B stands for Buses.
- Train Delays
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There are many reasons for delays and below, we try to highlight some of the major ones:
- Understanding the Need for Heat Restrictions
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Steel rails slowly expand and contract as temperatures rise and fall. With a substantial change in temperature, even in early March, there can be heat restrictions.
- Leaf Oil
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When the leaves begin to fall, those that land on the damp surface of the rails are crushed under thousands of tons of steel.
- U.S.N.O. Time
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VRE's trains run not by the time it says on your watch, but by the time that the U.S. Naval Observatory Time Services Department says it is.