Matapédia railway station

Matapédia Via Rail (Inter-city)
Station statistics
Address	10 rue MacDonell Matapédia, QC Canada
Coordinates	47°58′29″N 66°56′22″W / 47.97472°N 66.93944°W / 47.97472; -66.93944Coordinates: 47°58′29″N 66°56′22″W / 47.97472°N 66.93944°W / 47.97472; -66.93944
Lines	Montreal – Gaspé train   Ocean
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	2
Parking	Yes
Other information
Accessible
Services
Preceding station   Via Rail   Following station Causapscal toward Montreal Ocean Campbellton toward Halifax Montreal – Gaspé train Nouvelle toward Gaspé

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.

References

1. ^ Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada: "List of Designated Heritage Railway Stations: Quebec"

External links

• Via Rail station page for Matapédia railway station
• Via Rail page for the Ocean
• Via Rail page for the Montreal – Gaspé train