in 1980 terminating services from saskatoon were cancelled. then in 1981 via received a budget cut which saw tri-weekly services to thompson and to winnipeg via swan river discontinued. in 2002 services to lynn lake were cut back to pukatawagan followed by the service being cancelled in 2006 and replaced by a twice weekly mixed use train operated by the local first nations. in 2011 one of the 3 weekly trips to and from churchill was made to terminate here rather than continue on to winnipeg. in 2018 flooding saw services to churchill cut back to gillam and they weren't restored until over a year later. during the covid 19 pandemic terminating services were cancelled and service to winnipeg and churchill were retained on a once weekly freequency. this is because the route served vital communites without reliable road access. service has since reached pre-pandemic levels.