Gare du Palais
| Gare du Palais | |
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 Facade of the train station
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Terminus |
| Design | Terminus |
| opening | 1915 |
| Architectural data | |
| Architectural style | Neo-renaissance |
| architect | Harry Edward Prindle |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Quebec |
| province | Quebec |
| Country | Canada |
| Coordinates | 46 ° 49 '8 " N , 71 ° 12' 52" W |
| List of train stations in Canada | |
The Gare du Palais ( IATA train station code XLJ ) is the main train station in the Canadian city of Québec . It is located in the central arrondissement of La Cité-Limoilou , between the old town and the mouth of the Rivière Saint-Charles . It got its name because of its proximity to the former palace of the Intendants of New France .
history
The city did not get a connection to the railway network until 1879 and the first station was a modest building made of red brick. The American architect Harry Edward Prindle was commissioned by the Canadian Pacific Railway to build a new building. He decided in favor of the Châteauesque style, a variant of the Neo-Renaissance popular at the time , which had already been used two decades earlier at Château Frontenac . In 1976 the station was temporarily closed, but reopened nine years later. It has been a listed building since 1992.
architecture
The building is made of granite , limestone and bricks, and the steep roof is clad with copper . The front facade has a 2.5 m station clock and a 7.5 m high and 12 m wide window front with metal frames. The window is divided into seven fields, which are decorated with the coats of arms of seven personalities from the history of the province of Québec . These are the coats of arms of Charles de Montmagny , Alexandre de Prouville de Tracy , Louis de Buade de Frontenac , Jean Talon , Charles de la Boische , Louis-Joseph de Montcalm and James Wolfe .
use
Train Station several times daily service is operated VIA Rail - Corridor trains on over Drummondville to Montreal Gare Centrale , and partly on to Ottawa .
Attached to the Gare du Palais is a bus station for long-distance lines from various bus companies:
- Orléans Express ( Mauricie , Bas-Saint-Laurent , Gaspésie regions )
- Intercar ( Saguenay – Lac-Saint-Jean regions , Côte-Nord )
- A1 ( Thetford Mines )
- La Chaudière ( Beauce region )
- La Québécoise ( Sherbrooke )
Web links
- Information VIA Rail (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gare du Palais. Quebecplus.ch, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved June 28, 2014 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Le répertoire des gares désignées gares ferroviaires patrimoniales au Québec. (No longer available online.) Parks Canada , December 20, 2010, archived from the original on May 29, 2014 ; Retrieved June 28, 2014 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ A visit to the Gare du Palais, Quebec. iridetheharlemline.com, archived from the original on July 3, 2015 ; accessed on June 28, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
