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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Portage La Prairie Station (Canadian National Railway)

The Portage la Prairie station is a railway station in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada, currently served by Via Rail's transcontinental Canadian, and the Winnipeg–Churchill train.

A one-story brick building, the station operates as a flag stop for the Canadian, with 24-hour advance notice recommended, as well as being a regular stop on the Winnipeg-Churchill route.

It was originally served by the Canadian National Railway mainline.

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.

History

This Portage la Prairie station was built in 1908 by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (predecessor of the Canadian National Railway) and the Midland Railway of Manitoba as a union station.

The station was designated a national historic site in 1992.

It was formerly used as a Greyhound bus stop until the early 2000s when it moved to Portage la Prairie Mall. Greyhound Canada service later ended in Western Canada on October 31, 2018.

Footnotes

  1. ^ "Portage la Prairie train station | VIA Rail".
  2. ^ "HistoricPlaces.ca - HistoricPlaces.ca". www.historicplaces.ca. Retrieved 2023-10-11.
  3. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-10-28. Retrieved 2009-11-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)