A recent string of VIA Rail Delays between Winnipeg and Churchill has residents frustrated.

Michael Woelcke, General Manager of Regional Services says they’ve been caused by what’s called “slow orders”:

"At this time of year when the frost is completely come out of the ground, the track infrastructure, you know the base below the track, gets soft. So Hudson Bay railway and Omni Tracks, who own the rail, they have to go out and make repairs to the tracks, stabilize it, and until they do, they put what’s called a slow order. That means the train has to go very slow over a particular area from a safety point of view".

Woelcke says they don’t expect to see many more delays as the weather cools and repairs are done.