A question for the Montreal and transit historians. Is this the original site of Mile End station (On Bernard close to St Laurent)? The location seems to match my understanding of where it should be, but are these the remnants of the actual station building?
@heliomass Now that you bring it up, I'd always assumed it's where CP's Park Ave station was (and still is but an exo/STM joint now). Huh. I will consult my books ...
@heliomass I always miss the replies … Mike Leduc's book says the original QMO&O station was built in 1870 but doesn't mention the 1911 update. When Park Ave opened in '31, it was made redundant in any case.
Now that I've looked at the map … certainly seems to be the right place, but probably not the structure.
Lots of other infrastructure in that area - Montreal St Ry and Montreal Park & Island Ry car barns. All long gone, but there's a reason why the STM has a garage there.
@heliomass Made this several years ago. 1903 Goad-drawn map "prepared expressly for" Lovell's. Annotations are mine - Mile End station is right across the tracks from what was a Montreal Park & Island Ry "shed". I think this is the lot that is, or was until recently, still owned by #STM and used for bus storage.
@VE2UWY You know what, I never put two-and-two together. I even have Micael Leduc's book on Montreal railway termini, and I didn't even think to check in there first of all 🤦♂️
I'll have to get hold this other book you have as well (I also have the one on the Angus shops)
@heliomass 1960 yep, station is to the west of the 777 Bernard whatehouse. (which is the structure that was partly demolished and I guess being rebuild in your photos, not the actual train station).
Also right to the east of where Bernard curves.
@heliomass ' Mr Google tells me this structure in your pictures in 77 Bernard. 77 Bernard was
"L’entrepôt situé au 77 Bernard Est est apparu à la même époque, en 1959-60"
According to one map the station was web of 77 Bernard.
Thsi photo from 1954 seems to place the station a little bit to the east of where it was on map (aerial predates construction of 77 Bernard. There were yards just east of station. It was a big milk exchange point from rural, to milk processors downtown.
@heliomass Actual station was demolished 1970 when the Vanhorne/Rosemont overpass construction began. Need to do some more research to find out if any remnants remains between then and more recent times.
Station made sense when the main CP terminal was the Viger Station as trains from both the west and those that came from Ste Thérèse (petit train du nord, Hull train and trains from Québec) would pass through it. Once Windsor station opened, trains were shifted and no longer passed through Mile End station.
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