John Rowland wrote:
Boltar wrote:
Stephen Farrow wrote:
There isn't even any open-air access to the depots,
because the system is designed to remain unaffected by Montreal's
very severe winter weather).
There must be some sort of open air track access to at least one depot
to get trains in and out unless they crane them in a la the W&C line.

Not necessarily... maybe the system is linked to a tunnel section of the
national railway.

There is presumably some means of loading new vehicles in and removing
old ones at the depots (don't know what it is, it could just be a
loading dock), and there's no link to tunnel sections on either the CN
or CP main lines (not that it would do a lot of good if there was,
because of the rubber-tyred metro trains) - but the system, yes, is
entirely covered, and almost entirely underground (there aren't even
very many uncovered staircases leading down to the station mezzanines -
station entrances are usually either headhouse buildings or linked into
the ville souterraine).

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Stephen

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