Portage la Prairie station

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Portage la Prairie
Union Depot portagelaprairie2.jpg
The station circa 1911
Location130 Fisher Avenue
Portage la Prairie, MB
Canada
Coordinates49°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
Platforms1
Tracks1
Construction
Structure typeShelter
History
Opened1908
Services
Preceding station VIA Rail Canada simplified.svg Via Rail Following station
Rivers
toward Vancouver
 Canadian Winnipeg
toward Toronto
Gladstone
toward Churchill
 Winnipeg–Churchill Winnipeg
Terminus

The Portage la Prairie station is on the Canadian National Railway mainline in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba Canada. The station is served by Via Rail's transcontinental Canadian, and the Winnipeg–Churchill train.[1] The station operates as a flag stop for the Canadian, with 48-hour advance notice. It is a regular stop on the Winnipeg-Churchill route. Formerly uses as Greyhound bus stop until early 2000s then moved to Portage la Prairie Mall.

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 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 provides passenger services but operates as a museum.

Footnotes[]

  1. ^ "Portage la Prairie train station | VIA Rail".
  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-10-28. Retrieved 2009-11-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  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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