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Saint-Jérôme Line
Inbound train at Parc Station
Overview
OwnerCanadian Pacific Railway (railways between Template:AMT and Template:AMT), Agence métropolitaine de transport (rolling stock and railways between Template:AMT and Template:AMT)
Line numberSJ
LocaleGreater Montreal
Termini
Stations13
WebsiteAMT - Saint-Jérôme line
Service
TypeCommuter rail
SystemAgence métropolitaine de transport
Operator(s)Canadian Pacific Railway
Ridership2,863,800 (2014)
History
Opened1882
Technical
Line length62.8 km (39.0 mi)[1]
Track gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Route map
Saint-Jérôme line
Legend
Original station
 Saint-Jérôme
Mirabel
Blainville
Sainte-Thérèse
Quebec Autoroute 640.svg A-640
 Rosemère
Rivière des Mille-Îles
Zone C
Zone B
 Sainte-Rose
Vimont
originally Petite-Cote
Quebec Autoroute 440.svg A-440
Saint-Martin Junction
QGR to Quebec City
 Saint-Martin
De La Concorde
De La
Concorde
Rivière des Prairies
Zone B
Zone A
Bois-de-Boulogne
originally Henri-Bourassa
Mascouche line
 Chabanel
Quebec Autoroute 40.svg A-40
 Parc
originally
Jean Talon
Parc
Réseau express métropolitain
Mount Royal Tunnel
to Central Station
Quebec Autoroute 15.svg A-15
Candiac line
Vaudreuil–Hudson line
Montréal-Ouest
originally Montreal Junction
Quebec Autoroute 15.svg A-15
 Vendôme
Vendôme
 Westmount
Lucien-L'Allier
Lucien-L'Allier
 Windsor Station

The Saint-Jérôme line is a commuter railway line in Greater Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is operated by the Agence métropolitaine de transport (AMT), the umbrella organization that plans, integrates, and coordinates public transport services across this region.

The Saint-Jérôme Line was operated by the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) between 1882 and 1981. The line was not active until the AMT resumed passenger service in 1997.

There are 13 inbound and 13 outbound departures each weekday. There are six departures on Saturday and Sunday, although these trains terminate at De La Concorde Station with connection to De La Concorde Metro station, instead of continuing to Template:AMT or Lucien-L'Allier Station.[3]

Overview

This line links the Template:AMT station in Downtown Montreal with Template:AMT, on Montreal's North Shore. More than 2000 Park and Ride spaces are available for commuters.

The line offers service on weekdays with limited service to and from de la Concorde Metro on weekends. The frequency of service is 25–45 minutes during rush hour and every two hours outside of rush hour, of which five trips continue to or begin at Lucien-L'Allier station. All other trips begin or end at Parc Metro station.[3] Riders can transfer to the 935 Trainbus service to travel to downtown (in the mornings) or to Parc station (in the afternoons).[1]

Today, more than 12,000 people ride the line daily.

History

CP Service

The line between Montreal and Saint-Jérôme was built in 1876 by the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Railway (QMOO), which was owned by the Government of Quebec. In 1881, it was sold to Canadian Pacific along with the line on the north shore of the St. Lawrence and Ottawa rivers, between Quebec City and Ottawa. CP operated Le petit train du nord, the Ottawa train via Lachute, the Quebec train via Trois-Rivières as well as the Sainte-Thérèse RDC train along this route between 1882 and 1979.

AMT Service

The Montreal–Blainville line was originally opened in July 1997 and was supposed to serve commuters during the construction on the Marius Dufresne Bridge. In its early stages of life, the AMT Blainville train was composed of a GP9 locomotive and four Canadian Vickers Gallery Coaches. Although it offered only three departures per day (two peak, one reverse peak), it instantly became very successful. In 1997, there were only four stations: Template:AMT, Template:AMT, Template:AMT, and Jean-Talon (now Parc). The stations were merely wooden platforms with gravel parking lots; not too much money was spent because the line was not supposed to become permanent. Service increased in September 1997 to six departures per day (four peak, two reverse peak) and stations were added at Template:AMT and Henri-Bourassa (now Bois-de-Boulogne), the line had become permanent. The Template:AMT station at Rosemère was built in 1998.

To make the operation successful, buses were used to carry passengers from areas around the stations in Blainville and Sainte-Thérèse. These buses came from the CIT des Basses-Laurentides (now CIT Laurentides). In Montreal STCUM (now STM) buses were used from the Jean-Talon Station to downtown Montreal (Guy-Concordia) metro station (The 935 Trainbus Blainville / Centreville).[4]

In 1999, the STCUM had problems with a number of buses in their Nova LFS fleet, pulling them off the roads completely. To cope with the situation the AMT decided to extend the service from Parc metro directly downtown to Gare Windsor (now Template:AMT Terminus).

A little while later, a stop was added at the currently existing Vendôme station.

In late 2003, a stop was added at Template:AMT. Trains previously passed through the station without stopping.

Following the collapse of the De la Concorde overpass in Laval in October 2006, the AMT opened the temporary station Template:AMT on Bellerose Boulevard in anticipation of increased ridership. The AMT also leased 8 bilevel coaches and one F59PH locomotive from GO Transit to allow of additional trains in the short term. In November the highway was re-opened, and the leased train set was returned to GO Transit; however, the Vimont station became a permanent stop on the line.

End of the line at Template:AMT

On January 8, 2007, the line was extended from Blainville to Template:AMT; The new Template:AMT station was also opened, and a new schedule was released. As a result, only 10 round trips are made per day instead of 11.[5]

On April 28, 2007, along with the opening of the metro to Laval, the De La Concorde station was opened. The Template:AMT station was closed due to its proximity to De La Concorde.

In 2013, work was completed to double the track between Template:AMT station and Saint-Martin Junction and install Automatic Train Control (ATC) between Parc station and the end of the line in Saint-Jérôme. Various upgrading at different stations is ongoing and will be complete by November 2013. The $50-million project allowed for the addition of six weekday departures starting August 5, 2013.[6]

Future projects

The AMT is currently considering the following future projects:[7]

  • A train station is projected in Mirabel. The project has been delayed for years due to agricultural zoning issues. The station is due to start construction in 2016 with a completion date in 2017.
  • The AMT is planning a station in Outremont at the current site of the Outremont Yards. The Université de Montréal purchased the land and plans to convert the rail yards into a new campus in Montréal. The project is currently under study by the City of Montéal and the AMT. No timeline has been given.
  • The AMT is studying improving access to its Blainville and Sainte-Thérèse train stations as well as doubling the railway between Sainte-Rose and Sainte-Thérèse, which includes work to double the track over a bridge.
  • There are also plans to bring the line into Mount Royal Tunnel, joining the Template:AMT. The proposed plan would reduce travel time to downtown Montreal by 15 minutes, arriving directly at Central Station, instead of circling Mount Royal and the Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough to arrive at Template:AMT station. The AMT purchased dual-powered locomotives, like the ones to be used on the Template:AMT, so that trains may run electrically when in the tunnel while continuing to operate on diesel on the rest of the line.

Stations

There are 13 stations on the Saint-Jérôme Line:

Station Location Connections
Template:AMT Ville-Marie, Montreal Lucien-L'Allier Metro station, STM buses 36, 150, 178, 350, 355, 358, 364, 410, 420, 427, 430, 435, 747.[8]
Template:AMT Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Montreal Vendôme Metro station, STM buses 17, 37, 90, 102, 104, 105, 124, 371.[9]
Template:AMT Montreal West STM buses 51, 90, 105, 123, 162, 356.[10]
Template:AMT
(Previously named: Jean-Talon station) 		Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension, Montreal Parc Metro station, STM buses 16, 80, 92, 93, 365, 372, 435.[9] AMT bus 935.[1]
Template:AMT Ahuntsic-Cartierville, Montreal STM buses 19, 54, 135, 146.[10] Less than one kilometre walking distance of the Template:AMT station on the Mascouche line.[11]
Template:AMT STM buses 135, 164, 171, 180, 380.[12]
Template:AMT Laval-des-Rapides, Laval De La Concorde Metro station,[13] STL buses 2, 33, 37, 42, 63.[14]
Template:AMT Vimont, Laval STL buses 27, 45.[15]
Template:AMT Sainte-Rose, Laval STL buses 63, 65, 73.[16]
Template:AMT Rosemère CITLA buses 12, 15, 17, 20, 22.[17]
Template:AMT Sainte-Thérèse CITLA buses 9, 11, 22, 23, 27, 51, 60, 61, 73, 88.[18]
MRC Les Moulins: 23.[18]
Template:AMT Blainville CITLA buses 70, 71, 72.[19]
Template:AMT
(Part of the Saint-Jérôme intermodal bus station) 		Saint-Jérôme CITLA buses 9, 100, 101, 102, 103, 105, 107.[20]

CRTL bus 35.[20]
Intercity buses from Groupe Galland,[21] Autobus Maheux[22] and Transport Adapté et Collectif des Laurentides (TACL).[23]

Note

Notes

Westmount Subdivision Lucien-L'Allier 0.1 Montreal West 4.6
North Junction Lead Montreal-West 0.0 St-Luc Jct* 2.1
Adirondack Subdivision St-Luc Jct 45.4 Outremont* 49.1
Parc Subdivision Outremont 4.7 Saint-Jérôme 32.9
* Saint-Luc Jct and Outremont are not passenger stops.

References

  1. ^ a b c "AMT - Saint-Jérôme line - Information". Agence métropolitaine de transport. 2015. Retrieved 2015-06-08.
  2. ^ https://www.amt.qc.ca/Media/Default/pdf/section8/publications/amt-rapport-annuel-2014.pdf
  3. ^ a b "Horaire ligne Saint-Jérôme" (PDF) (in French). Agence métropolitaine de transport. 2015. Retrieved 2015-06-08.
  4. ^ "Reprise du service de la navette trainbus 935, de la gare Jean-Talon au centre-ville". AMT. 1999. Retrieved 2006-12-26.
  5. ^ "Train de Banlieue Montréal/Blainville/Saint-Jérôme" (PDF). AMT. 2007. Retrieved 2007-01-08.
  6. ^ Increasing capacity on the Blainville–St-Jérôme Line
  7. ^ Programme triennal d'immobilisations (in French only)
  8. ^ "Lucien-L'Allier". STM. 2015. Retrieved 2015-06-08.
  9. ^ a b "Vendôme". STM. 2015. Retrieved 2015-06-08.
  10. ^ a b "AMT - Saint-Jérôme line > Bus transfers". AMT. 2015. Retrieved 2015-06-08.
  11. ^ Google Maps walking itinerary
  12. ^ "AMT - Saint-Jérôme line > Bus transfers". AMT. 2015. Retrieved 2015-06-08.
  13. ^ "De la Concorde". STM. 2015. Retrieved 2015-06-08.
  14. ^ "AMT - Saint-Jérôme line > Bus transfers". AMT. 2015. Retrieved 2015-06-08.
  15. ^ "AMT - Saint-Jérôme line > Bus transfers". AMT. 2015. Retrieved 2015-06-08.
  16. ^ "AMT - Saint-Jérôme line > Bus transfers". AMT. 2015. Retrieved 2015-06-08.
  17. ^ "AMT - Saint-Jérôme line > Bus transfers". AMT. 2015. Retrieved 2015-06-08.
  18. ^ a b "AMT - Saint-Jérôme line > Bus transfers". AMT. 2015. Retrieved 2015-06-08.
  19. ^ "AMT - Saint-Jérôme line > Bus transfers". AMT. 2015. Retrieved 2015-06-08.
  20. ^ a b "AMT - Saint-Jérôme line > Bus transfers". AMT. 2015. Retrieved 2015-06-08.
  21. ^ (in French). Groupe Galland http://www.galland-bus.com/spip.php?article41. Retrieved 2015-06-08. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  22. ^ (in French). Autocars Maheux http://www.autobusmaheux.qc.ca/documents/horaires/20150401-horaires_autocars_maheux.pdf. Retrieved 2015-06-08. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  23. ^ Template:Cite web url=http://www.transportlaurentides.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/TACL trajets horaire 25Aout2014.pdf
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