Montréal-Ouest station

Montréal-Ouest station is a commuter rail station in the Montreal borough of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, adjacent to the border with the town of Montreal West, Quebec. It serves the Exo Vaudreuil-Hudson, Saint-Jérôme, and Candiac lines. Montréal-Ouest station is located in ARTM fare zone A,[2] and has 20 parking spaces.[1] It is the station where these three lines come together as one towards Lucien-L'Allier station.

Montréal-Ouest
General information
Location7499 Harley Avenue[1]
Montreal, Quebec H4B 1L7
Coordinates45°27′13″N 73°38′30″W
Operated byExo
Platforms3 side platforms
Tracks3
Connections
  Société de transport de Montréal
Construction
Parking 12 Park-and-Ride and 2 Carpooling spaces[1]
Bicycle facilities15 spaces[1]
Other information
Fare zoneARTM: A[2]
WebsiteMontreal-Ouest Station (RTM)
History
Opened14 April 1889
Previous namesMontreal Junction
Passengers
2019[3]537,500 Vaudreuil-Hudson
239,300 Saint-Jérôme
130,100 Candiac
906,900 Total (Exo)
Services
Preceding station Exo Following station
Lachine
toward Hudson
 Vaudreuil–Hudson Vendôme
toward Lucien-L'Allier
Parc
toward Saint-Jérôme
 Saint-Jérôme
Du Canal
toward Candiac
 Candiac
Former services
Preceding station Canadian Pacific Railway Following station
Ottawa
toward Vancouver
 Main Line Westmount
toward Montreal Windsor
Montreal Park Avenue
toward Quebec
 Montreal – Quebec
Pointe Claire
toward Ottawa
 Ottawa – Montreal
Short Line
Grovehill
toward Rigaud
 Montreal – Rigaud
local stops
Ste. Annes
toward Detroit
 Detroit – Montreal
LaSalle
toward Wells River
 Montreal – Wells River
LaSalle
toward McAdam
 Montreal – McAdam
Preceding station New York Central Railroad Following station
Valleyfield
toward Utica
 Adirondack Division Westmount
toward Montreal
Preceding station Amtrak Following station
Rouses Point
toward New York (Grand Central)
 Adirondack
bypassed 1983
 Westmount
toward Montreal

Origin of name

Montréal-Ouest takes its name from the Town of Montreal West, which this station serves. The Town's main street, Westminster Avenue, crosses the tracks directly to the west of the station building.

History
The station in October 1946.

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 crossover from North Junction into the station (track 4) was removed, but was restored in 1999 when the Blainville train line (now Saint-Jérôme line) started downtown service. It was not until 2003, however, that Saint-Jérôme trains stopped at Montréal-Ouest. At that point, the northernmost track (now signed as Track 3) was served by an island platform, which also served track 2.

In 2019, however, another side platform was built north of the station, with the northern face of the island platform fenced off. For now, access to this platform from the rest of the station is only via the Avenue Elmhurst level crossing, with additional accesses from the Elmhurst bus loop and Rue Sherbrooke. In the summer of 2023, the tunnel which connects the station building with the island platform will be extended to Platform 3 and the northern accesses.[4]

Along with Beaconsfield station, this is the only station on the line to retain its original station building (1889) in passenger use. In addition to ticketing facilities, the station building houses an underpass that connects to two headhouses on the island platform. Mechanical bells are still sounded as a signal when trains approach this station.

Prior to the reform of the ARTM's fare structure in July 2022, this station was in zone 1.[1]

Train services

Current
  • Vaudreuil–Hudson line: (1889–1982 by CP, 1982–1996 by the STCUM, 1996–2017 by the Agence Métropolitaine de Transport (AMT), 2017–present, by Exo)
  • Saint-Jérôme line: (1951–1980 by CP, 1999–2017 by the AMT, 2017–present, by Exo)
  • Candiac line: (1889–1980 by CP, 2001–2017 by the AMT, 2017–present, by Exo)

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
51 Édouard-Montpetit
105 Sherbrooke
123 Dollard
162 Westminster
356 Lachine/YUL Aéroport/Des Sources

See also

References
  1. Montreal West (RTM)
  2. "Fare Zones". Metropolitan Regional Transportation Authority. 1 July 2022. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  3. Exo (2020-06-17). Réponse à votre demande d'accès à l'information (Report) – via Access to Information Act request, reference no. 2020-25.
  4. "Gare Montréal-Ouest : aménagement d'un nouveau quai temporaire pour faciliter les déplacements de la clientèle". exo. 20 December 2019. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
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