Historic Map of Commuter Rail, Interurbans, and Rapid
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l'Assomption Montreal Area Historical Map of Interurban, Commuter Rail and Rapid Transit Legend Abandoned Interurban Line St-Lin Abandoned Line This map aims to show the extensive network of interurban,* commuter rail, On-Street (Frequent Stops) (Expo Express) Abandoned Rail Line Acitve Line and rapid transit lines operated in the greater Montreal Region. The city has St-Paul-l'Ermite (Metro) Active Rail Line Abandoned Station seen a dramatic changes in the last fifty years in the evolution of rail transit. La Ronde (Expo Express) La Plaine Streetcars and Interurbans have come and gone, and commuter rail was Viger Abandoned Station Active Stations Bruchesi Du College Abandoned dwindled down to two lines and is now up to three. Over these years the Metro Charlemange / Repentigny Temporary Station Parc Blue Line Longueuil Le Page Chambly was built as was the now dismantled Expo Express. Abandoned Interurban Stop Yellow Line Square-Victoria Orange Line Granby Abandoned Interurban Station Ravins Then Abandoned Rail Station McGill Green Line -Eric Peissel, Author Pointe-aux-Trembles Pointe Claire Active Station A special thanks to all who helped compile this map: [Lakeside] [with Former Name] Blainville Snowdon Interchange Station Tom Box, Hugh Brodie, Gerry Burridge, Marc Dufour, Louis Desjardins, James Hay, Mont-Royal Active Station Paul Hogan, C.S. Leschorn, & Pat Scrimgeor Pointe-aux- Trembles Sainte-Therese Riviere-des-Prairies Sources: Leduc, Michael Montreal Island Railway Stations - CNR Rosemere Ste-Rosalie-Jct. Sainte-Rose St-Hyacinthe Leduc, Michael Montreal Island Railway Stations - CPR Lacordaire Montreal-North * Tetreauville Grenville Some Authors have classified the Montreal Park and Island and Montreal Terminal Railway as Interurbans but most authoritive books on Interurbans define Ste. Gertrude Ste-Madeleine only the Montreal and Southern Counties as an Interurban Line. The other lines were surburban streetcar lines with some Interurban characteristics. Stonefield Watson Honore-Beaugrand Cushing INSET Pie IX Radisson St. Vital Hawkesbury Langelier St-Hilaire East Monalea Saint-Martin Jct. Sault-au-Recollet St-Hilaire Chicot Cadillac Assomption Carillon Saint-Martin St-Benoit Longue Pointe Lalande Viau St-Placide St-Eustache Maisonneuve Ahuntsic Saint-Michel Henri-Bourassa Otterburn Park Fresniere Pie-IX Beloeil Pte-Fortune Iberville St Andrews East Sauve Sauve Cremazie Fabre Joliette Laval-des-Rapides Boulevard Jarry Grand Moulin Prefontaine Henri-Bourassa Jean-Talon [Deux-Montanges] Bordeaux St. Catherine E. [Sault-au-Recollet] Beaubien Rosemont [Moreau] Deux-Montanges Jaques Cartier Jct. [Angus Shops] McLaughlins [St. Eustache-sur-Lac] Hochelaga Jean-Talon De Castelnau Frontenac (Park Avenue) Rosemont Mile-End Gohier Longueuil Cartierville Parc Laurier Papineau Monkland St. Laurent St-Basile-le-Grand Pine Beach Laval-sur-le-Lac Mont-Royal Du Ruisseau Acadie La Ronde Outremont Beaudry Montreal South Montpellier Laval-Links Ste-Dorothee Bois-Franc [Vertu] Mont-Royal Sherbrooke Roger Beach [Val-Royal] [St Laurent] Ile-Ste-Helene St-Bruno [Lazard] Berri-UQAM Agriculture Ile Bigras Ste. Genevieve Viger 1 Cote-Vertu Canora Saint-Laurent Place-des- [Portal Heights] Champs- Nations Sunnybrooke Du College St. Laurent Place-des-Arts de-Mars Du College Edouard-Montpetit Place- St-Hubert St-Joseph-du-Lac McGill d'Armes Ile-Notre-Dame Roxboro-Pierrefornds Square- Universite-de-Montreal Central2 Victoria [Roxboro] De la Savane M&SC Habitat 67 Calumet Beach A-Ma-Baie Peel Bonaventure St-Lambert Cote-de-Liesse Plamondon Cote-des-Neiges Lucien-L'Allier East End Croydon Namur Guy-Concordia Windsor Place d'Accueil Cote-Ste-Catherine Atwater Bonaventure Georges-Vanier Bridge St Snowdon St. West End Westmont Cunegonde Pte St Charles (East) [St Antoine] Lionel-Groulx Pte St Charles (West) East Greenfield St-3 Hibernia West- Charlevoix Rigaud Villa-Maria mont Henri Vendome LaSalle Vendome Place St-Henri Dragon Cote-St-Paul Choisy Hudson Heights Cote-St-Paul Brookline Turcot De l'Eglise East Cote-St-Paul Alstonvale Pine Beach Verdun Power Jolicoeur Strathmore[Bel Lachine 40th(40th) Montreal V Air] Dorval Lachine (48th) [Grovehill] West Hudson alois Dixie [Forest Hills] [Dennistown][Summerlea] Sortin Pointe Claire[Lakeside] [Grovehill] [Lachine Links] Monk [Golf Links] Ville St. Pierre Allard St. Highland Gardens Jaques Cartier [Blue Bonnets] Angrignon Chambly Basin Richelieu Rougemont Cedar Park Montreal West ValoisStrathmore Dixie Dominion [Turcot West] Chambly Canton Pointe Claire(Cartier) Lakeside Dorval Lachine [LachineDominion Locks] Willows Rockfield [Reilley's Crossing] Marieville Saint-Paul-de-Abbotsford Lachine Wharf (1) Convent Beaconsfield Cedar Park [Lachine] Como Lafleur Ave. Lachine Wharf (2) Pointe Claire Newman Ave. Beaurepaire (Cartier) Lasalle The Montreal and Southern Counties Beaconsfield [Highlands] [Lachine] Dollard St. 1 Viger [Dalhousie Square] [Quebec Gate Barracks] Beaurepaire 2 Central [Tunnel Terminal] Saint-Cesaire Baie d'Urfe 3 St. Henri [Tanneries Jct.] [Bay View] [Thompson's Point] Granby West Interurban Line or M&SC [Dollier] Granby Ile Cadieux Baie d'Urfe [Bay View] Ste-Anne Adirondack Jct Ste-Anne Ile Perrot Pincourt/ KanawakiKahnawake Sainte-Angele-de-Monnoir Dorion Terr.-Vaud. Ile Perrot The M&SC began in operation in 1909. Financing The Heights Vaudreuil Chateauguay St. Constant was arranged throught the Grand Trunk (later Delson Woodlands CNR). When the M&SC went bankrupt in 1920 the St. Philippe line became a wholly owned divison of CN. The Bellevue line opperated until 1956 when it was shut down. L'Acadie Iberville Maple Grove Some tracks remain in operation between St-Isidore St. Gregorie St-Jean Versailles St-Hubert and Marieville. The M&SC Terminal Beauharnois Ste. Brigitte Farnham DOWNTOWN Honore-Beaugrand still stands at the corner of McGill and Youville. Pie IX St-Timothee Radisson St. Vital Langelier Commuter Rail Routes Saint-Martin Jct. Sault-au-Recollet Cadillac Permanent Services Valleyfield Assomption Note: Service to Pte Fortune ended in 1941 Saint-Martin Windsor to Dorion / Rigaud / Pte Fortune Longue Pointe Note: Service Terminated Viau Windsor to Delson / St Jean / Farnham Maisonneuve Ahuntsic Saint-Michel Henri-Bourassa Windsor to Chateauguay / Valleyfield / Malone Note: Service Terminated Pie-IX Iberville Sauve Sauve Windsor to St-Therese / Blainville Note: Service started as temporary but kept as permanent Cremazie Fabre Joliette Laval-des-Rapides Boulevard Note: Service to Viger until 1951 and after that Windsor Jarry Prefontaine Viger / Windsor to St-Therese / St Lin Service Terminated Henri-Bourassa Jean-Talon Bordeaux St. Catherine E. [Sault-au-Recollet] Beaubien Rosemont Moreau[Moreau] Note: Service Terminated Jaques Cartier Jct. [Angus Shops] Viger to St Therese / St Eustache Hochelaga Jean-Talon De Castelnau Frontenac (Park Avenue) Rosemont Highlands [Lasalle] to Cote St Paul (Lasalle Loop) Note: Service Terminated Mile-End Gohier Longueuil St-Stanislas Cartierville Parc Laurier Papineau The Expo Express Monkland St. Laurent Sainte Catherine St. East to l'Assomption Note: Service Terminated Mont-Royal Du Ruisseau Acadie La Ronde Outremont Beaudry Montreal South Montpellier Bois-Franc [Vertu] Mont-Royal Sherbrooke Tunnel Terminal / Central to Deux-Montanges Note: Service to Tunnel Terminal until 1943 and then Central This was Montreal's shortest lived [Val-Royal] [St Laurent] Ile-Ste-Helene [Lazard] Berri-UQAM Agriculture Viger 1 Note: Service to Tunnel Terminal until 1943 and then Central Cote-Vertu Canora Tunnel Terminal / Central to Montreal North Saint-Laurent Place-des- Service Terminated rapid transit system. Built for the 1967 [Portal Heights] Champs- Nations Du College St. Laurent Place-des-Arts de-Mars Note: Service to Tunnel Terminal until 1943 and then Central Du College Edouard-Montpetit Place- Tunnel Terminal / Central to Cartierville McGill d'Armes Ile-Notre-Dame Service Terminated World's Fair the system was to run Square- Universite-de-Montreal Central2 Victoria Note: Service to Tunnel Terminal until 1943 and then Central De la Savane M&SC Habitat 67 Peel Bonaventure St-Lambert Tunnel Terminal / Central to Grenville / Hawkesbury Service Terminated throught the fair grounds to Dominon Cote-de-Liesse Plamondon Cote-des-Neiges Lucien-L'Allier East End Note: Service to Tunnel Terminal until 1943 and then Central Namur Guy-Concordia Windsor Tunnel Terminal / Central to Calumet Beach Huntingdon Place d'Accueil Summer Service Only / Service Terminated Square in downtown Montreal. But Cote-Ste-Catherine Atwater Bonaventure Georges-Vanier Bridge St Central to Granby Note: Replaced Interurban Service, Service Terminated Snowdon St. West End when it was announced that the Metro Westmont Cunegonde Pte St Charles (East) Note: Service to Bonaventure until 1943 and after that Central [St Antoine] Lionel-Groulx Pte St Charles (West) St-3 Hibernia Bonaventure / Central to St Hilaire / Ste Rosalie Service Terminated Villa-Maria West- Charlevoix would be extended to the site the line mont Henri Note: Service to Bonaventure until 1948 and after that Central Vendome Bonaventure / Central to Vaudreuil (via Lachine) Vendome LaSalle Service Terminated was shortened to run between Place Place St-Henri Cote-St-Paul Bonaventure to Cote St Paul Note: Service to Terminated Cote-St-Paul d'Accueil and La Ronde. It operated Turcot De l'Eglise East Cote-St-Paul Bonaventure to St Laurent Note: Service Terminated Verdun Power Note: Service to Pte St Charles until 1863 and then Bonaventure