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Montreal City Passenger Railway Company 1861-1886 (MSR)
Montreal Island Beltline Railway 1893-1899 (MTR)
Montreal Terminal Railway 1899-1911
Montreal Public Service Corporation 1910-1911 (STP)
Montreal Park and Island Railway 1894-1901
Montreal Suburban Tramway and Power 1904-1910
Commission de tramway Montreal 1918
Montreal Street Railway Company 1886-1911 (MTR and MPIR)
Montreal Tramways Company 1911-1950
La Commission de transport de Montreal (Montreal Transit Commission) 1950-1970
Commission de transport de la communaute urbaine de Montreal (Montreal Urban Community Transportation Commission) 1970-1985
Societe de transport de la communaute urbaine de Montreal (Montreal Urban Community Transit Corporation) 1985-2002

Roster

STM operates over 1,600 buses in its fleet, below is the all time fleet list:

GMC TDH5301, 5105, 5305, 5303
GMD S8H-5303A, 5304A, SDM 5301, 5302, 4501,
WFC D700A
MCI MC-7
MCI/Nova TC40-102N
OBI Orion 02.501
Canadair-Flxible CL218
GMC T6H 5305, 5307N
GMDD TC40-102N
Prevost PTS47
MAN 750-40-M12A
Dodge Tradesman 300
GMC Vandura 35
Ford Ecoline
Flxible 511KE-F6
Saviem SICO
Van Hool AG280
GM and MCI Classic
NovaBus LFS
Can-car/Brill
CCF C40A, CD40A, C36, CD44A, CD52, T44, T44A, CD52, TD51
AEC Ranger, 664T
GMC TDH-4512, 5101
Mack BC, C49DT, LD4G, 6-CQ-3S, CQ3G, LC3G, 6-CT-3S, LD3G. LC3D, CD49DT, CD47DT, CD45DT
American Car Foundary-Brill H-16, 31S, 26S, 36S
Leyland LTB1, Olympic Mk. X
Versare Company - Atwater St Monster
Yellow Bus X, 1204, TD2701, Z, TD-3201, TD3202, 728, TG4006, AF258
Ford 19B, 29B
White TBC, TDF, 54, 686, 786, 784, 788, 65A, 54A, 1144D
REO Motor Inc G
Fageol Twin Coach TD-2701, 38S, 44D

STM Bus routes numbers:

Routes 100 to 169
Routes 170 to 268
Routes 410 to 545
Routes 350 to 382

Streetcars

Like many Canadian cities in the 19th and early 20th Century had streetcar (tram) service. With the popularity of buses, Montreal abandoned the streetcars by 1959.

Horsecar service 1861-1894
(Electric) streetcar service 1894-1959

Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver were a few Canadian cities that used trolley buses. Introduced in 1937, service ended in 1966. Here just some of the vehicles that served in Monteral:

Horsecars

Larivière sleigh
Stephenson horsecar
Larivière omnibus

Electric cars

CC&F SE DT PCC
CC&F SE DT
Brownell SE ST
Kuhlman SE DT
Ottawa Car Co. SE DT
Briney Brill DE ST
Newburyport SE DT

Connections

STM is connected to surrounding transit agencies like:

Société de transport de Laval (STL) - Ville de Laval
Reseau de transport de Longueuil (RTL) - Ville de Longueuil
Agence métropolitaine de transport (AMT) is the commuter rail service (Dorion-Rigaud/Deux-Montagnes/Blainville/Mont-Saint-Hilaire/Delson-Candiac)

Metro

Montreal is one of two cities in Canada with a subway system, the others have the smaller light rail system.

The subway or 'Metro', was introduced in 1966 in preparation for Canada's 100th birthday and Expo '67 in Montreal. Montreal is one a few cities not to use traditional railcars, rather the Metro uses rubber tire vehicles:

Make/Model Canadian Vickers MR-63 and Bombardier MR-73
Total Fleet: 759

Montreal Metro lines are as follows:

References/External links

Categories: Bus transit | Intermodal transportation authorities | Montreal | Montreal Metro | Transportation in Quebec

Last updated: 06-02-2005 23:34:55

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