HALIFAX — Some passengers had their travel plans ******** when part of a Via Rail train went off the tracks on Sunday morning.

Via Rail spokeswoman Marie-Anna Murat says in an email that nobody was ******* when three cars ******** early Sunday morning at the company’s maintenance centre yard in south end Halifax.

She says the passenger train was supposed to leave Halifax at 1 p.m.

The company has contacted the affected passengers to offer alternative transportation as well as a ****** or the possibility to change their reservation for a later date.

Murat says an ************* is ongoing.