Portage la Prairie station (Canadian National Railway)
Portage la Prairie | ||||||||||||||||
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 The station circa 1911 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Location | 130 Fisher Avenue Portage la Prairie, MB Canada | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 49°58′38″N 98°17′17″W / 49.97722°N 98.28806°W | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 1 | |||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1908 | |||||||||||||||
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The Portage la Prairie station is on the Canadian National Railway mainline in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba Canada. The station is served by Via Rail's transcontinental Canadian four times per week (twice in each direction) and the Winnipeg–Churchill train twice per week.[1] The station operates as a flag stop for the Canadian, with 48-hour advance notice. It is a regular stop on the Winnipeg-Churchill route.
The station was designated a national historic site in 1992.[2] The one story brick building was built by Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and the Midland Railway of Manitoba as a union station in 1908.[3]
Also designated a national historic site is the Portage la Prairie Canadian Pacific Railway Station that no longer provides passenger services but operates as a museum.
Footnotes
- ^ http://www.viarail.ca/en/stations/prairies-and-northern-manitoba/
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-10-28. Retrieved 2009-11-23.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Via Rail/Canadian National Railways Station Fisher Avenue East, Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada". Canada's Historic Places - a Federal Provincial and Territorial Collaboration. Retrieved 2011-02-07.