Ottawa Train Station

This article is about the railway station in Ottawa. For the transitway station, see Train Station (OC Transpo).

Ottawa Via Rail (Inter-city)
Station statistics
Address	200 Tremblay Road Ottawa,ON K1G 3H5,Canada
Lines	Ottawa–Montreal   Toronto–Ottawa
Other information
Electrified	No
Accessible
Services
Preceding station   Via Rail   Following station Fallowfield (limited) Terminus Ottawa–Montreal Casselman (limited) toward Montreal Fallowfield toward Toronto Toronto–Ottawa Terminus

Ottawa Station (IATA: XDS) in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, located at 200 Tremblay Road, is served by Via Rail inter-city trains connecting it to Toronto and Montreal. OC Transpo’s Train rapid transit station (which, despite its name, is a bus stop) carries railway passengers into the city centre or into the eastern suburbs.

The station was designed by John B. Parkin & Associates and was built in 1966. It won a Massey Medal for architecture in 1967. In 2000, the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada named the station as one of the top 500 buildings produced in Canada during the last millennium.^[1]

Ottawa’s trains once came into a large downtown Union Station a short distance from the Parliament buildings, but with the replacement of the railway tracks beside the Rideau Canal with the National Capital Commission’s Colonel By Drive scenic parkway, the former station has been converted into the Government Conference Centre.

The Ottawa Railway Station is assigned the "airport" code XDS by the IATA. Its Via Rail code is OTTW.

See also

Ottawa portal

• Government Conference Centre (Ottawa Union Station)

References

1. ^ Cook, Marcia (11 May 2000). "Cultural consequence". Ottawa Citizen (Canwest). http://www.ty-a.ca/Citizen/top500.htm. Retrieved 2009-10-11. 

External links

• Ottawa Regional Society of Architects -- Architecture of the Ottawa Train Station
• Photos of Ottawa Train Station
• Via Rail station page for Ottawa Train Station

Coordinates: 45°24′59″N 75°39′06″W / 45.41645°N 75.651708°W / 45.41645; -75.651708