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Trains into Canada’s capital now terminate at this east-end station.

Ottawa Station (IATA: XDS) in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, is served by VIA Rail inter-city trains connecting it to Toronto and Montreal. Adjacent to the railway station is OC Transpo’s Train rapid transit station which, despite its name, is a bus stop on the transitway system, from which buses carry railway passengers into the city centre or into the eastern suburbs.

The station was designed by John B. Parkin & Associates and was built in 1966. It won a Massey Medal for architecture in 1967.

Ottawa’s trains once came into a large downtown Union Station a short distance from the Parliament buildings, but with the replacement of the railway tracks beside the Rideau Canal with the National Capital Commission’s Colonel By Drive scenic parkway, the former station has been converted into the Government Conference Centre.

The Ottawa Railway Station is assigned the "airport" code XDS by the IATA.

See also

• Government Conference Centre (Ottawa Union Station)

External links

• Ottawa Regional Society of Architects -- Architecture of the Ottawa Train Station
• Photos of Ottawa Train Station
• VIA Rail station page for Ottawa Train Station

Coordinates: 45°25′13″N 75°39′13″W / 45.420142, -75.653569

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