The Agence métropolitaine de transport (AMT) of Montréal inaugurated its new Lachine Maintenance Centre. This cutting-edge facility will enable the AMT to perform maintenance on all its trains that travel on the Candiac, Saint-Jérôme and Vaudreuil-Hudson lines, and to meet operational requirements related to its activities.
The $118.9 million project was completed with financial contributions from PPP Canada, from the Ministère des Transports, de la Mobilité durable et de l’Électrification des transports, and from the AMT.
Covering a 14-hectare site in an industrial zone of Lachine, the Lachine Maintenance Centre has sufficient space to accommodate 13 train sets. It also has a service and inspection workshop that can contain a train set of 10 cars and two locomotives, and a major repair shop containing heavy equipment such as a bridge crane, a 100-tonne decoupling table and automated inspection systems. Other equipment includes an automated train wash that cleans the exterior of a train set in five minutes.
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