Ottawa Train Station
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200 Tremblay Road Ottawa, Ontario Canada | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 45°24′59″N 75°39′06″W / 45.41639°N 75.65167°WCoordinates: 45°24′59″N 75°39′06″W / 45.41639°N 75.65167°W | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Via Rail | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 5 island platforms | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 6 | |||||||||||||||
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| Disabled access | Yes | |||||||||||||||
| Architect | John B. Parkin & Associates | |||||||||||||||
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| Station code |
VIA Rail: OTTW IATA: XDS | |||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1966 | |||||||||||||||
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Ottawa Station (IATA: XDS) in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, located at 200 Tremblay Road, is served by Via Rail inter-city trains connecting it to Toronto and Montreal. OC Transpo’s Train rapid transit station (which, despite its name, is a bus stop) carries railway passengers into the city centre or into the eastern suburbs.
The station was designed by John B. Parkin & Associates and was built in 1966. It won a Massey Medal for architecture in 1967. In 2000, the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada named the station as one of the top 500 buildings produced in Canada during the last millennium.[1]
Ottawa’s trains once came into a large downtown Union Station a short distance from the Parliament buildings, but with the replacement of the railway tracks beside the Rideau Canal with the National Capital Commission’s Colonel By Drive scenic parkway, the former station has been converted into the Government Conference Centre.
Other Connections
Air France–KLM runs a connecting shuttle bus from this station to Montreal Airport, exclusive for the airline's customers only.[2]
References
- ↑ Cook, Marcia (11 May 2000). "Cultural consequence". Ottawa Citizen (Canwest). Retrieved 2009-10-11.
- ↑ "Bus between Ottawa Railway Station (XDS) and Montreal (YUL)". Travel by train on a KLM ticket. KLM. Retrieved December 2015.
External links
Media related to Ottawa Train Station at Wikimedia Commons- Ottawa Regional Society of Architects -- Architecture of the Ottawa Train Station
- Photos of Ottawa Train Station
- Via Rail station page for Ottawa Train Station
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