Matapédia railway station

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Matapédia railway station is located on rue MacDonnell in the village of Matapédia, Quebec, Canada. The station is staffed and wheelchair-accessible.

Matapédia is the junction between two rail lines. The east-west former Intercolonial Railway mainline from Halifax to Rivière-du-Loup is joined from the east by a line running along the south coast of the Gaspé Peninsula to the town of Gaspé.

As a result, Matapédia is where two VIA Rail routes diverge en route to their eastern terminuses, whereas they converge when heading westbound. The 6 day/week Halifax-Montreal Ocean and 3 day/week Gaspé-Montreal Chaleur trains operate as one train between Matapédia and Montreal.

[edit] External links

• VIA Rail station page for Matapédia railway station

• VIA Rail page for the Ocean
• VIA Rail page for the Chaleur

Preceding station		VIA Rail		Following station
Causapscal toward Montreal		Ocean		Campbellton toward Halifax
		Chaleur		Carleton toward Gaspé