Gare de Matapédia - Matapédia Train Station - Matapédia , Québec
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La gare de Matapédia a été construite par le chemin de fer Intercolonial en 1903. Elle est située sur la rue Macdonell. The Matapedia train station was built in 1903 by the Intercolonial Railway Company. It is located on Macdonell Street.
Waymark Code: WMKQZN
Location: Québec, Canada
Date Posted: 05/19/2014
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La gare de Matapédia de Matapédia est desservie par deux lignes de Via Rail Canada en provenance de Montréal. À partir d'ici, Le Chaleur poursuit sa route en Gaspésie tandis que L'Océan poursuit sa route au Nouveau-Brunswick.
La gare de Matapédia a été construite par le chemin de fer Intercolonial en 1903. On lui a ajouté une annexe en 1950. Elle a été désignée Gare ferroviaire patrimoniale le 1er juin 1994.
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The Matapédia railway station is located on rue MacDonnell in the village of Matapédia, Quebec, Canada. The station is staffed and wheelchair-accessible.
Matapédia is the junction between two rail lines. The east-west former Intercolonial Railway mainline from Halifax to Rivière-du-Loup is joined from the east by a line running along the south coast of the Gaspé Peninsula to the town of Gaspé.
As a result, Matapédia is where two Via Rail routes diverge en route to their eastern termini, whereas they converge when heading westbound. The 6 day/week Halifax-Montreal Ocean and 3 day/week Montreal – Gaspé train operate as one train between Matapédia and Montreal in the winter time when each separate train has fewer cars. Since the 2004 introduction of Renaissance cars (the former Nightstar trains from the UK) on the Ocean both trains operate separately between Matapédia and Montreal during the summer when each train is longer.
When operating separately, the Montreal – Gaspé train will run several minutes ahead of the Ocean toward Montreal. When combined, the trains run together as far as Matapédia before the Ocean continues to Halifax, Nova Scotia and the Montreal – Gaspé train proceeds to Gaspé.
The Canadian National Railway station is a designated Heritage Railway Station,[1] under the Heritage Railway Stations Protection Act.
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