Vendôme station

Originally, two stations were supposed to be built between Place-Saint-Henri and Villa-Maria: Northcliffe and Westmount. However, opposition from Westmount residents as well as instability in the underlying rock formation forced their consolidation into one station, with the result that the tunnel between Vendôme and Place-Saint-Henri is the longest on the Island of Montreal.

The station is a normal side platform station with an entrance near the midpoint of the platforms. The main entrance is located on De Maisonneuve Boulevard and another entrance is located in the bus loop. The structure sits directly above the platforms and includes and surrounds the sunken mezzanine. It is the network's deepest station without escalators or moving sidewalks.

The station was designed by the firm of Desnoyers, Mercure, Leziy, Gagnon, Sheppard et Gélinas. It contains a plaque commemorating Jean Descaris, a 17th-century pioneer, and his descendant Alphonse Décarie, on whose land Vendôme and Villa-Maria Metro stations were built. The adjacent train station is in Fare Zone 1.[5]

A short tunnel under the railway tracks links this Metro station to the McGill University Health Centre, which opened in 2015. Initially, the tunnel provided access only to a secondary entrance building on the hospital campus, with a door between the tunnel and the underground parking garage kept locked; however, the access to the underground parking was later opened to the public and pedestrian paths through the garage provided, offering indoor access from the metro to the hospital. Although the secondary entrance building has an elevator, the new tunnel was not wheelchair accessible, with only stair access to the metro and commuter trains. This lack of provision was criticised by advocates.[6][7]

In fall 2017, construction began on another entrance to the station, located east of the bus loop. This was designed to offer a wheelchair-accessible direct connection between the metro station, the commuter train platforms, and the hospital via a pedestrian tunnel. The choice to construct a second access was made because retrofitting the existing access was deemed prohibitively expensive.[8] The new entrance pavilion also includes new public art.[9] The new entrance was opened on May 31, 2021, making the station fully accessible.[7][10]

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  Vendôme Station platform.
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  Exterior of new entrance pavilion viewed at night
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  The memorial plaque
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  Stained glass window by artist Marcelle Ferron

The station features two artworks. The first artwork is by Quebec artist Marcelle Ferron, and consists of a stained-glass window and a stainless steel sculpture over the tracks.[11] It was installed when the station first opened.[11] The second artwork was installed as part of the work to make the station accessible in the mid 2010s.[9] It comprises a set of three ceramic mosaics, by artist Patrick Bernatchez. It is located in the east entrance of the station.[12]

This station is named for avenue de Vendôme, in turn possibly named for the French Dukes of Vendôme.

Vendôme
General information
Location	5160 De Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montreal, Quebec H4A 3S9[13]
Operated by	Exo
Platforms	1 side platform, 1 island platform
Tracks	3
Bus operators	Société de transport de Montréal
Connections	Orange Line
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Parking	None[13]
Bicycle facilities	None[13]
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	ARTM: A[1]
Website	Vendome Station (RTM)
History
Opened	1983
Passengers
2019[14]	1,581,800 Vaudreuil-Hudson 269,500 Saint-Jérôme 611,200 Candiac 2,462,500 Total (Exo)
Services
Preceding station Exo Following station Montréal-Ouest toward Hudson Vaudreuil–Hudson Lucien-L'Allier Terminus Montréal-Ouest toward Saint-Jérôme Saint-Jérôme Montréal-Ouest toward Candiac Candiac

Vendôme station is a commuter rail station operated by Exo in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce area of the Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough, and is served by the Vaudreuil-Hudson, Saint-Jérôme and Candiac Lines. The station is connected by a pedestrian tunnel to the Montreal Metro's Vendôme station.

The station originally had two tracks (and two side platforms), but in 2015, a third track running between Montreal West and Downtown Montreal's Lucien-L'Allier station was added for improved service, and platform 2 was rebuilt as a wider island platform so trains running on the new track could call at the station as well.[15]

The station is in the ARTM's Fare Zone A.[1] Prior to the reform of the ARTM's fare system in July 2022, it was in zone 1.[13]

• Complexe de santé Reine-Élisabeth
• Shadd Academy
• Centre Saint-Raymond
• Georges-Saint-Pierre Park
• McGill University Health Centre (MUHC)
• Shriners Hospital for Children – Canada
• Unitarian Church of Montréal
• Victoria Village, Westmount

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Vendôme (Montreal Metro).

Media related to Gare Vendôme at Wikimedia Commons

• Vendôme Station, official web page
• Vendôme metro station geo location
• Photos of Vendôme station architectural features at Desnoyers Mercure & associates, architects (French page)
• Montreal by Metro, metrodemontreal.com – photos, information, and trivia
• 2011 STM System Map
• Metro Map
• RTM page for Vendôme