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, Canada. 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
Location	7499 Harley Avenue[1] Montreal, Quebec H4B 1L7
Coordinates	45°27′13″N 73°38′30″W
Operated by	Exo
Platforms	3 side platforms
Tracks	3
Connections	Société de transport de Montréal
Construction
Parking	12 Park-and-Ride and 2 Carpooling spaces[1]
Bicycle facilities	15 spaces[1]
Other information
Fare zone	ARTM: A[2]
Website	Montreal-Ouest Station (RTM)
History
Opened	14 April 1889
Previous names	Montreal 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, it 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

• Boston (The Alouette/The Red Wing: 1926–1959)
• Canadian train to Chicago: (1914–1940)
• Canadian train to Vancouver: (1955–1979)
• The Atlantic Limited: (1955-1979)
• The Adirondack: (1974–1986)

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.

• Quebec City (via Trois-Rivières): (1951–1984)
• Ottawa via Montebello: (1951–1981)
• Mont-Laurier: (1951–1981)

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

• The Adirondack, The last intercity train to use this station

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.

External links

• Official Website, Vaudreuil-Hudson Line
• Official Website, Saint-Jerome Line
• Official Website, Candiac Line
• Combined schedule of trains at Montreal West^{[permanent dead link]}
• 2016 STM System Map