Mont-Saint-Hilaire Line

Mont-Saint-Hilaire Line
Outbound train at Saint-Basile-le-Grand
Overview
Type	Commuter rail
System	Agence métropolitaine de transport
Locale	Greater Montreal
Termini	Central Station Mont-Saint-Hilaire
Stations	7
Daily ridership	9,700 (2014)
Ridership	2,303,100 (2014)
Line number	SH
Operation
Opened	1859
Operator(s)	CN's Montrain Division
Technical
Line length	34.9 km (21.7 mi)
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
Route map

The Mont-Saint-Hilaire line is a commuter railway line in Greater Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is operated by the Agence métropolitaine de transport (AMT), the umbrella organization that plans, integrates, and coordinates public transport services across this region.

The Mont-Saint-Hilaire Line was operated by the Canadian National Railway (CN) between 1859 and 1988. The AMT resumed passenger service on the line in 2000.

There are 7 inbound and 7 outbound departures per weekday.

This line links the Central Station in downtown Montreal with Mont-Saint-Hilaire, on Montreal's South Shore.

The line offers seven departures every weekday morning towards Montreal and seven returns to Saint-Hilaire every weekday evening. It is also the only commuter train line not to have any train stations on the island of Montreal outside of Downtown Montreal. All the other train lines have at least 4 stops before leaving the island.

The trains are owned and managed by the Agence métropolitaine de transport, and operated by Canadian National's Montrain division.

Today, over 9,000 people ride this train daily.

Historically this commuter route was operated by CN. Equipment in the late 1960s and early 1970s, operated once daily each direction, was a hodgepodge of ca 1930 coaches and an equally eclectic mix of yard switchers, freight and passenger diesel electric engines.

The following stations are on the Mont-Saint-Hilaire line:

The commuter line operates over the following Canadian National subdivision: