Bois-Franc station
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Bois-Franc station is a future Réseau express métropolitain (REM) interchange station in the Bois-Franc neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. REM service is expected to begin at the station in October 2025.[1]
It was formerly a commuter rail station on the Deux-Montagnes line until Exo ended service in 2020.
Origin of name
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History
The original station was named Lazard[2] (likely for the Franco-American merchant bank Lazard Frères & Co. which underwrote the construction of the Mount Royal Tunnel on this rail line). In 1926, the station was renamed Val-Royal. After the modernization of the Deux-Montagnes Line, between 1993 and 1995, a new station named Bois-Franc was built; the original station was then demolished at the request of the Canadian National Railway and with the permission of Transport Canada on June 5, 1995.[3] The old station site is now a parking lot on the east side of Boulevard Marcel-Laurin.
Location
The station is located at 5465 Henri Bourassa Boulevard West, between Marcel-Laurin Boulevard/Boulevard Laurentien (Route 117) and Grenet Street in Saint-Laurent on the border with Cartierville.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Cartierville branch and station
A single-track electrified (2400 V DC) branch to Cartierville, a relic of when the line terminated there in Canadian Northern Railway days, left the line at (then) Val-Royal station. When the line was run by Canadian National, only one rush-hour trip was scheduled in each direction. It was abandoned in the early 1980s when STM predecessor STCUM took over operations of the Deux-Montagnes line. The Cartierville station was located at the corner of Gouin West and Laurentian boulevards.[4] The Cartierville Station was to have been the terminus of Line 3 (Red) of the Montreal Metro.
Connecting bus routes
| style="background: #Template:Rcr; font-size:100%; color:#FFFFFF;"colspan="4"|<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />Société de transport de Montréal | |
|---|---|
| No. | Route |
| Template:Rint | Grenet |
| Template:Rint | Thimens / Grenet |
| Template:Rint | Dudemaine |
| Template:Rint | Keller |
| Template:Rint | Henri-Bourassa peak only |
| Template:Rint | Henri-Bourassa |
| Template:Rint | Pierrefonds / Saint-Charles |
| Template:Rint | Express Pierrefonds / Gouin |
| style="background: #Template:Rcr; font-size:100%; color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="4" | Société de transport de Laval | |
| No. | Route |
| Template:Rint | Sainte-Dorothée - Métro Côte-Vertu |
| Template:Rint | Sainte-Rose - Métro Côte-Vertu |
| Template:Rint | Sainte-Dorothée - Métro Côte-Vertu |
| Template:Rint | Gare Sainte-Dorothée - Métro Côte-Vertu |
| Template:Rint | Terminus Le Carrefour - Métro Côte-Vertu |
See also
References
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External links
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- Future Réseau express métropolitain railway stations
- Former Exo commuter rail stations
- Railway stations in Montreal
- Saint-Laurent, Quebec
- 1994 establishments in Quebec
- Railway stations in Canada opened in 1994
- Railway stations in Canada closed in 2020