Montréal-Ouest (AMT)

Montréal-Ouest
Location 7499 Harley Avenue[1]
Montreal West, Quebec
Coordinates 45°27′13″N 73°38′30″W / 45.45361°N 73.64167°W / 45.45361; -73.64167Coordinates: 45°27′13″N 73°38′30″W / 45.45361°N 73.64167°W / 45.45361; -73.64167
Operated by Agence métropolitaine de transport
Platforms 1 side platform, 1 island platform
Tracks 3
Connections
  STM buses
Construction
Parking 10 spaces[1]
Bicycle facilities 15 spaces[1]
Other information
Fare zone 1
History
Opened 14 April 1889
Traffic
Passengers (2014[2]) 494,100 Vaudreuil-Hudson.
137,900 Saint-Jérôme
103,000 Candiac
735,000 Total (AMT)
Services
Preceding station   AMT   Following station
toward Hudson
Vaudreuil–Hudson
Saint-Jérôme
toward Candiac
Candiac
Opens 2016
toward Candiac

Montréal-Ouest is a commuter rail station on the Vaudreuil-Hudson, Saint-Jérôme, and Candiac lines in the Greater Montreal, Quebec, Canada area. Montréal-Ouest is in Fare Zone 1, and this station has 20 parking spaces.[1] It is the station where these three lines come together as one towards Lucien-L'Allier station.

Origin of name

Montréal-Ouest takes its name from the Town of Montreal West, where half of the station is located. The other half is located in the city of Montreal (Côte-des-Neiges/Notre-Dame-de-Grace borough)

History

The station opened on 14 April 1889, when the Canadian Pacific Railway's Windsor Station and its approach tracks came into service. Its original name was Montreal Junction, the second place to bear this name, because it was (as it still is today) the place where numerous CPR passenger lines came together near the Montreal terminal. The present Montreal-West station was built in 1905.

Until about the 1970s there were 4 tracks at the station. Track 1 (the southernmost track, closest to the station) was removed. In the 1980s the switch from North Junction into the station (track 4) was removed, but was reinstated in 1999 when the Blainville train line (now Saint-Jérôme) started downtown service. It wasn't until 2003, however, that the line called at Montréal-Ouest.

Train services

Current

Former

Most trains on these lines ran from Place Viger until it closed on 31 May 1951. They served Montreal-West only when their terminal was Windsor Station—a few trains until June 1951, all of them thereafter.

Bus connections

Société de transport de Montréal (STM)

Société de transport de Montréal[1]
No. and Route Name Service Times Route Map Schedule
51 Édouard-Montpetit All-Day Map Schedule
105 Sherbrooke All-Day Map Schedule
123 Dollard All-Day Map Schedule
162 Westminster All-Day Map Schedule
356 Lachine/Mtl-Trudeau/Des Sources Overnight Map Schedule

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 AMT - Stations - Montreal West
  2. ↑ Ridership from Rapport annuel 2014 [Annual Report 2014] (PDF). amt.qc.ca (Report) (in French) (Montreal: Agence métropolitaine de transport [Metropolitan Transportation Agency]). ISBN 978-2-550-72933-4. Retrieved May 2015.

External links

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