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Saint-Jean-d'Iberville station (french: Gare du Grand Tronc à Saint-Jean-d'Iberville) is a former railway station in
Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu () is a city in eastern Montérégie in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Quebec, about southeast of Montreal. It is situated on the west bank of the Richelieu River at the northernmost naviga ...
, Quebec, Canada. The station was built in 1890 by the Grand Trunk Railway and is located at 31 Frontenac Street. Until September 3, 1966 the Boston & Maine's Montreal to Boston and New York ''
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'' made daily stops at the station. The company's night train, '' Washingtonian'' southbound to Washington and ''Montrealer'' northbound to Montreal made nightly stops at the station until September 6, 1966."Passenger Service Ended". The Gazette (Montreal). September 6, 1966. p. 33 – https://www.newspapers.com/clip/71706839/the-gazette/ The station was omitted from stops when Amtrak reinstated the ''Montrealer'' in 1972. It was recognized as a National Historic Site of Canada on June 15, 1976. Today it operates as a town tourism office.


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