Verdun (Montreal Metro)

Verdun

Location

4520/4525, rue de Verdun, Montreal
Quebec, Canada

Coordinates

45°27′34″N 73°34′18″W / 45.45944°N 73.57167°WCoordinates: 45°27′34″N 73°34′18″W / 45.45944°N 73.57167°W

Operated by

Société de transport de Montréal

Connections

STM buses

Construction

Depth

21.9 metres (71 feet 10 inches), 12th deepest

Architect

Jean-Maurice Dubé

History

Opened

3 September 1978

Traffic

Passengers

1,487,901 entrances in 2006, 50th of 68

Services

Preceding station		Montreal Metro		Following station
Jolicoeur toward Angrignon		Green Line		De L'Église toward Honoré-Beaugrand

Verdun station is a Montreal Metro station in the borough of Verdun in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM) and serves the Green Line. It opened on September 3, 1978, as part of the extension of the Green Line westward to Angrignon station.

Designed by Jean-Maurice Dubé, it is a normal side platform station, built in a deep open cut necessitated by the surrounding Utica shale formation. The ticket hall is located at transept level, and both the mezzanine and platforms are surmounted by high volumes. The volume over the tracks and platforms has a forced perspective; the ceiling lowers and the platform width shortens on the western end of the station. Accesses are located on either side of rue de Verdun.

The artwork running throughout the station consists of concrete walls with bas-reliefs in the upper parts and painted motifs on the lower, which were designed by Claude Théberge and Antoine D. Lamarche.

This station is named for rue de Verdun and for the borough (formerly the city) of Verdun, in front of whose borough office the station is located. The land that would later constitute the borough was granted as a concession to Zacharie Dupuis in 1671; he named it Fief-de-Verdun for his birthplace at Saverdun in the south of France.

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