by CPRTim
Montreal’s AMT (in English: Metropolitan Transportation Agency) recently extended the Montreal-Blainville service an additional 15km to a new intermodal station in St. Jerome for a total length of 62km from downtown Montreal.
http://www.answers.com/topic/blainville-line
This was the original CPR route to the Laurentian Mountains and Mont Laurier: “Le Petit Train du Nord” Ski Trains that lasted until 1979.
AMT inaugurated a Montreal-Blainville commuter train on this route in 1997. It was only to have been temporary during the reconstruction of a bridge but the route was so successful that it was made permanent and expanded.
The St Jerome line begins downtown at Lucien L’Allier Terminus (adjacent to the CPR Windsor Station) then to Montreal West before heading northeast ‘round the mountain (not through it like the AMT’s electrified line from Central Station to Deux Montagnes) to a stop at Park Avenue. Some trains originate and terminate here where direct connections are made with the Metro. Then it’s north to a scenic bridge crossing leaving Montreal Island to Laval than another bridge crossing to near St. Therese. A wide loop here to gain some elevation then a straight run north to Blainville and St. Jerome.
http://www.amt.qc.ca/tc/train/plans/blainville.asp
North of the new intermodal station at St Jerome the original Le Petit Train du Nord route is now a hiking and biking trail into the Laurentian Mountains.
http://www.laurentides.com/anglais/parc/Welcome.html
I recently rode a train to St Jerome. An afternoon departure from downtown that consisted of former CPR “Gallery” style bi-levels (not the Bombardier type). It took an hour and a half to reach St Jerome and the fare was $9. oneway. There is no return train in the evening but there is frequent bus service from the new station back to a connection with the Metro at Henri-Bourassa in Montreal.
http://www.answers.com/topic/blainville-line
This was the original CPR route to the Laurentian Mountains and Mont Laurier: “Le Petit Train du Nord” Ski Trains that lasted until 1979.
AMT inaugurated a Montreal-Blainville commuter train on this route in 1997. It was only to have been temporary during the reconstruction of a bridge but the route was so successful that it was made permanent and expanded.
The St Jerome line begins downtown at Lucien L’Allier Terminus (adjacent to the CPR Windsor Station) then to Montreal West before heading northeast ‘round the mountain (not through it like the AMT’s electrified line from Central Station to Deux Montagnes) to a stop at Park Avenue. Some trains originate and terminate here where direct connections are made with the Metro. Then it’s north to a scenic bridge crossing leaving Montreal Island to Laval than another bridge crossing to near St. Therese. A wide loop here to gain some elevation then a straight run north to Blainville and St. Jerome.
http://www.amt.qc.ca/tc/train/plans/blainville.asp
North of the new intermodal station at St Jerome the original Le Petit Train du Nord route is now a hiking and biking trail into the Laurentian Mountains.
http://www.laurentides.com/anglais/parc/Welcome.html
I recently rode a train to St Jerome. An afternoon departure from downtown that consisted of former CPR “Gallery” style bi-levels (not the Bombardier type). It took an hour and a half to reach St Jerome and the fare was $9. oneway. There is no return train in the evening but there is frequent bus service from the new station back to a connection with the Metro at Henri-Bourassa in Montreal.
