Quebec City Railway Station (Gare du Palais) | |||||||||||||
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 The Gare du Palais in Old Quebec | |||||||||||||
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| Location | 450, rue de la Gare du Palais Quebec City, Quebec G1K 3X2 | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 46°49′03″N 71°12′50″W / 46.8174°N 71.2139°W | ||||||||||||
| Owned by | Via Rail | ||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 Island | ||||||||||||
| Tracks | 4 | ||||||||||||
| Bus operators |  Intercar La Québécoise Orléans Express | ||||||||||||
| Connections | RTC | ||||||||||||
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| Parking | Yes | ||||||||||||
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| Status | Staffed station | ||||||||||||
| Station code | VIA Rail: QBEC | ||||||||||||
| IATA code | XLJ | ||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1915 | ||||||||||||
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Gare du Palais ("Palace Station") is a train and bus station in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. Its name comes from its proximity to the former location of the Palace of the Intendant of New France.[1] It is served by Via Rail, Canada's national passenger railway, and by the private coach company Orléans Express.
Built in 1915 by the Canadian Pacific Railway, the two-storey châteauesque station is similar in design to the Château Frontenac hotel. The station had no passenger rail service from 1976 to 1985. It reopened in 1985, and is the eastern terminus of Via Rail's Corridor services in Ontario and Quebec, serving regular daily services west to Montreal's Central Station and Ottawa via Drummondville,[2] for at most 10 trains per day.[3][4] It was designated a Heritage Railway Station in 1992.[5]
- ^ "Rue du Palais, fiche no 1064, toponymes, ville de Québec". Ville de Québec (in French).
- ^ "Québec (mai 2001)". Archived from the original on September 28, 2007.
- ^ "Westbound schedule" (PDF). VIA Rail.
- ^ "Eastbound schedule" (PDF). VIA Rail.
- ^ "Heritage Railway Stations - List of designated stations in Quebec". Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. March 17, 2006. Archived from the original on November 1, 2006. Retrieved May 16, 2010.