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, and has 20 parking spaces. 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, 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 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 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 was removed. In the 1980s the crossover from North Junction into the station was removed, but was restored in 1999 when the Blainville train line started downtown service. It was not until 2003, however, that Saint-Jérôme trains stopped at Montréal-Ouest. At that point, the northernmost track 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. A new head house was built north of the tracks, opening in Fall 2023 and connecting Sherbrooke Street and the Elmhurst bus loop with track 3 and the passenger tunnel to the other tracks and the station building.
Along with Beaconsfield station, it is the only station on the line to retain its original station building in passenger use. In addition to ticketing facilities, the station building houses an underpass that connects to two headhouses on the island platform.
Prior to the reform of the ARTM's fare structure in July 2022, this station was in zone 1.

Train services

Current

Former

Boston Canadian train to Chicago: Canadian train to Vancouver: The Atlantic Limited: The Adirondack:
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 : Ottawa via Montebello: Mont-Laurier'':