Vendôme station

Vendôme
Location	5160, boul. de Maisonneuve Ouest, Montreal Quebec, Canada
Coordinates	45°28′26″N 73°36′14″W / 45.47389°N 73.60389°W / 45.47389; -73.60389Coordinates: 45°28′26″N 73°36′14″W / 45.47389°N 73.60389°W / 45.47389; -73.60389
Operated by	Société de transport de Montréal
Bus operators	Société de transport de Montréal
Connections	Vendôme (exo)
Construction
Depth	6.1 metres (20 feet), 57th deepest
Disabled access	Yes
Architect	Desnoyers, Mercure, Leziy, Gagnon, Sheppard et Gélinas
History
Opened	7 September 1981
Passengers
2020[1][2]	3,128,354  57.3%
Rank	6 of 68
Services
Preceding station   Montreal Metro   Following station Villa-Maria toward Côte-Vertu Orange Line Place-Saint-Henri toward Montmorency

Vendôme station is an intermodal transit station in the borough of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, near the town of Westmount.^[3] It is operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM) and serves the Orange Line of the Montreal Metro.

The station connects to Exo's commuter rail network by a pedestrian tunnel, permitting access to platforms providing service on the Vaudreuil-Hudson, Saint-Jérôme and Candiac lines.

Overview[]

Vendôme Station platform.

Access building

The memorial plaque

The station is a normal side platform station with an entrance near the midpoint of the platforms. The main entrance is located on De Maisonneuve Boulevard and another entrance is located in the bus loop. The structure sits directly above the platforms and includes and surrounds the sunken mezzanine. It is the network's deepest station without escalators or moving sidewalks.

The station was designed by the firm of Desnoyers, Mercure, Leziy, Gagnon, Sheppard et Gélinas. It contains a stained-glass window and stainless steel sculpture by important Quebec artist Marcelle Ferron. It also contains a plaque commemorating Jean Descaris, a 17th-century pioneer, and his descendant Alphonse Décarie, on whose land Vendôme and Villa-Maria Metro stations were built. The adjacent train station is in Fare Zone 1.^[4]

A short tunnel under the railway tracks links this Metro station to the new McGill University Health Centre. Initially, the tunnel provided access only to a secondary entrance building on the hospital campus, with a door between the tunnel and the underground parking garage kept locked; however, the access to the underground parking was later opened to the public and pedestrian paths through the garage provided, offering indoor access from the metro to the hospital. Although the secondary entrance building has an elevator, the tunnel is not wheelchair accessible, with only stair access to the metro and commuter trains.^[5]

In fall 2017, construction began on another entrance to the station, located east of the bus loop. This was designed to offer a wheelchair-accessible direct connection between the metro station, the commuter train platforms, and the hospital via a pedestrian tunnel. The choice to construct a second access was made because retrofitting the existing access was deemed prohibitively expensive.^[6] The new entrance was opened on May 31, 2021.^[7] It includes a new work of art by , a set of three ceramic mosaics.^[8]

Origin of the name[]

This station is named for avenue de Vendôme, in turn possibly named for the French Dukes of Vendôme.

History[]

Originally, two stations were supposed to be built between Place-Saint-Henri and Villa-Maria: Northcliffe and Westmount. However, opposition from Westmount residents as well as instability in the underlying rock formation forced their consolidation into one station, with the result that the tunnel between Vendôme and Place-Saint-Henri is the longest on the Island of Montreal.

Exo station[]

Vendôme
Location	5160 De Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montreal, Quebec[9]
Operated by	Exo
Platforms	1 side platform, 1 island platform
Tracks	3
Connections	Vendôme (Montreal Metro)   STM transit bus service
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Parking	None[9]
Bicycle facilities	None[9]
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	1 [9]
Website	Vendome Station (RTM)
History
Opened	1983
Passengers
2019[10]	1,581,800 Vaudreuil-Hudson 269,500 Saint-Jérôme 611,200 Candiac 2,462,500 Total (Exo)
Services
Preceding station Exo Following station Montréal-Ouest toward Hudson Vaudreuil–Hudson Lucien-L'Allier Terminus Montréal-Ouest toward Saint-Jérôme Saint-Jérôme Montréal-Ouest toward Candiac Candiac

Vendôme station is a commuter rail station operated by Exo in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce area of the Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough, and is served by the Vaudreuil-Hudson, Saint-Jérôme and Candiac Lines. The station is connected by a pedestrian tunnel to the Montreal Metro's Vendôme station.

The station originally had two tracks (and two side platforms), but in 2015, a third track running between Montreal West and Downtown Montreal's Lucien-L'Allier station was added for improved service, and platform 2 was rebuilt as a wider island platform so trains running on the new track could call at the station as well.^[11]

The station is in the ARTM's Fare Zone 1.^[9]

Connecting bus routes[]

Société de transport de Montréal
Route
17 Décarie
37 Jolicoeur
90 Saint-Jacques
102 Somerled
104 Cavendish
105 Sherbrooke
124 Victoria
371 Décarie

Nearby points of interest[]

• Complexe de santé Reine-Élisabeth
• Shadd Academy
• Centre Saint-Raymond
• Georges-Saint-Pierre Park
• McGill University Health Centre (MUHC)
• Shriners Hospital for Children – Canada
• Unitarian Church of Montréal

References[]

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Vendôme (Montreal Metro).

Media related to Gare Vendôme at Wikimedia Commons

• Vendôme Station, official web page
• Vendôme metro station geo location
• Photos of Vendôme station architectural features at Desnoyers Mercure & associates, architects (French page)
• Montreal by Metro, metrodemontreal.com – photos, information, and trivia
• 2011 STM System Map
• Metro Map
• RTM page for Vendôme