Portage la Prairie railway station

Portage la Prairie
Location 130 Fisher Avenue
Portage la Prairie, MB
Canada
Coordinates 49°58′38″N 98°17′17″W / 49.97722°N 98.28806°W / 49.97722; -98.28806Coordinates: 49°58′38″N 98°17′17″W / 49.97722°N 98.28806°W / 49.97722; -98.28806
Platforms 1
Tracks 1
Connections Greyhound Canada
Grey Goose Bus Lines
History
Opened 1908
Services
Preceding station   Via Rail   Following station
toward Vancouver
Canadian
toward Toronto
toward Churchill
Winnipeg–Churchill
Terminus

The Portage la Prairie Railway Station is on the Canadian National Railway mainline in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba Canada. The station is served by Via Rail's The Canadian three times per week in each direction and the Winnipeg – Churchill train twice per week.[1] The station operates as a flag stop with 48-hour advance notice.

The station was designated a national historic site in 1992.[2] The one story brick building was built by Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and the Midland Railway of Manitoba as a union station in 1908.[3]

Also designated a national historic site is the Portage la Prairie Canadian Pacific Railway Station that no longer is receives passenger service but operates as a museum.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ http://www.viarail.ca/en/stations/prairies-and-northern-manitoba/
  2. ↑ http://www.pc.gc.ca/clmhc-hsmbc/gfp-hrs/mb_E.asp
  3. ↑ "Via Rail/Canadian National Railways Station Fisher Avenue East, Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada". Canada's Historic Places - a Federal Provincial and Territorial Collaboration. Retrieved 2011-02-07.
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