'Job done' (an antiquated collection of Canadian National Railways (CN Rail) stock lays over just outside Montreal's Gare Centrale waiting for its next turn through the Mount Royal tunnel to Deux Montagnes, 1985)
The line through the Mount Royal tunnel linking Montreal's Gare Centrale with Deux-Montagnes to the north was opened in 1918 as part of the Canadian Northern Railway, transferrinng to Canadian National Railways ownership in 1923. The line was completely re-built between 1992 and 1995, with new trains, track and electrification. The line was closed in 2020 as part of the Réseau express métropolitain plan to convert the line to a driverless metro and extend service beyond Gare Centrale to Brossard across the St. Lawrence River, with subsequent branches to Montreal-Pierre Eliott Trudeau International Airport and to Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue.
'Job done' (an antiquated collection of Canadian National Railways (CN Rail) stock lays over just outside Montreal's Gare Centrale waiting for its next turn through the Mount Royal tunnel to Deux Montagnes, 1985)
The line through the Mount Royal tunnel linking Montreal's Gare Centrale with Deux-Montagnes to the north was opened in 1918 as part of the Canadian Northern Railway, transferrinng to Canadian National Railways ownership in 1923. The line was completely re-built between 1992 and 1995, with new trains, track and electrification. The line was closed in 2020 as part of the Réseau express métropolitain plan to convert the line to a driverless metro and extend service beyond Gare Centrale to Brossard across the St. Lawrence River, with subsequent branches to Montreal-Pierre Eliott Trudeau International Airport and to Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue.