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{{short description|Montreal Metro Station}}
{{About|the Montreal Metro station|the station near Snowdon in Wales once named Snowdon Station|Rhyd Ddu railway station|the station at the summit of Snowdon|Summit railway station (Snowdon Mountain Railway)}}
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| address            = 5111 Chemin Queen Mary, Montréal, QC H3W 1X4
| country            = Canada
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| platform           = 4 split platforms (2 on each level)
| depth              = {{convert|19.5|m|ft|abbr=off}} (upper platform)<br>{{convert|24.6|m|ftin|abbr=off}} (lower platform), 6th deepest
| levels             = 
| tracks             = 4
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| opened             = 7 September 1981 (Orange Line)<br>4 January 1988 (Blue Line)
| architect          = Jean-Louis Beaulieu
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| accessible         = Yes
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| operator           = [[Société de transport de Montréal]]
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'''Snowdon station''' is a [[Montreal Metro]] station in the borough of [[Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce]] in [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]], Canada.<ref>[http://www.stm.info/English/metro/a-m49.htm Snowdon Metro Station]</ref> It is operated by the [[Société de transport de Montréal]] (STM) and is a transfer station between the [[Line 2 Orange (Montreal Metro)|Orange Line]] and [[Line 5 Blue (Montreal Metro)|Blue Line]]; it is the western terminus of the Blue Line. It is located in the [[Snowdon, Quebec|Snowdon]] [[Districts of Montreal|neighbourhood]]. The town of [[Hampstead, Quebec|Hampstead]] is located nearby to the west, across Macdonald Avenue; one emergency exit from the station extends into Hampstead.

The station opened on September 7, 1981 with service on the Orange Line only, though the Blue Line platforms were built at the same time. At the time it was the western terminus of the Orange Line, taking over from [[Place-Saint-Henri station]]; it is thus the only station to have been the terminus of two different lines. Service on the Blue Line began on January 4, 1988.

==Overview==
[[File:Snowdon Platform Arrangement.svg|thumb|Platform arrangement at [[Snowdon (Montreal Metro)|Snowdon]]|left]]
The station was constructed as an anti-directional [[cross-platform interchange]], with three lateral tunnels containing two storeys each, joined by four cross-tunnels; both lines therefore have stacked platforms. This layout was intended to allow rapid transfer between a future extension into Notre-Dame-de-Grâce and service to downtown; this service never opened, and the station's layout means that most people who transfer between the Blue and Orange Lines must go down stairs.

The station's central access tunnel is connected at its western end to the station's single entrance, which is integrated into an STM control centre and contains a small sunken garden.

=== Accessibility ===
In October 2013, work began to make the station accessible. Construction involved building two elevators to connect both platform levels of the station, with a third elevator constructed to connect the upper platform level with the surface entrance. The only vestibule of the station underwent reconstruction.<ref>{{cite web |date=August 2014 |title=Snowdon - October 2013 to January 2016 |url=http://www.stm.info/en/info/service-updates/stm-works/snowdon |access-date=October 18, 2014 |publisher=STM |quote=We have begun construction work on the elevator shafts that, once completed, will link the mezzanine on the upper level and the passenger platforms on the lower level}}</ref> After completion, the surface elevator features its longest shaft in Montreal Metro, with the pit depth of about 25 meters. Works was completed by June 2016.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Henriquez |first=Gloria |date=3 June 2016 |title=Snowdon metro station more accessible thanks to 3 new elevators - Montreal |url=https://globalnews.ca/news/2741005/snowdon-metro-station-more-accessible-thanks-to-3-new-elevators/ |access-date=2022-09-20 |website=Global News |language=en-US}}</ref> However, the Blue Line itself was not accessible until [[Jean-Talon station (Montreal Metro)|Jean-Talon station]] (which also interchanges with the Orange Line) gained elevators in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web |date=7 November 2019 |title=Métro’s Blue line now accessible |url=http://www.stm.info/en/press/news/2019/metro-s-blue-line-now-accessible |access-date=2020-11-08 |website=Société de transport de Montréal |language=en}}</ref>

==Architecture and art==
[[File:Snowdon Station Line 5 Platform, July 25 2025.jpg|thumb|left|Blue Line platform]]

The station was designed by Jean-Louis Beaulieu, who also provided sculptural grilles for the station's main staircase and the rear of the control building. The station's main artwork, a group of four murals by [[Claude Guité]] running the full length of the platform and entitled ''Les quatre saisons'' (the four seasons). The murals are painted on 500 panels of asbestos cement stretching the entire length of the platforms, they portray semi-abstract scenes of the foliage and weather associated with each of the four seasons. The seasons go in order, counterclockwise around the platforms, with [[winter]] on the Côte-Vertu platform, [[spring (season)|spring]] on Montmorency, [[summer]] on the Saint-Michel departure platform, and [[autumn]] on the Snowdon arrival platform.

Soon after the station opened the murals were victims of [[graffiti]] that badly damaged the artwork. Attempts of removing the graffiti destroyed large sections of the paintings. In 2004 the murals were all removed for a restoration plan by the STM to have the artist repaint the murals and slowly have them reinstalled in the station. As of June 2010 all the murals have been repainted, and are partially reinstalled on all four platforms of the station with a protective sheet of glass to prevent any future vandalism.

==Origin of the name==
This station is named for the neighborhood in which it is located, named in turn for the owner of a farm on which it was built.  The underground station platforms, located under Avenue Dornal, are approximately four blocks—about 250 m (270 yards)—east of the site of Snowdon Junction, a major transfer point during the [[streetcar]] era.

==Connecting bus routes==
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! No.
! Route
! Connects to
! Service times / notes
|-
!{{rint|montreal|bus|17}}
|Décarie
|{{plainlist|
* {{Station icon link|Montreal Metro|Place-Saint-Henri|2}}
* {{Station icon link|Montreal Metro|Vendôme|2}}
* {{Station icon link|Montreal Metro|Côte-Vertu|2}}
* {{Station icon link|Montreal Metro|Namur|2}}
* {{Station icon link|Montreal Metro|De La Savane|2}}
* {{Station icon link|Montreal Metro|Du Collège|2}}
* {{Station icon link|Montreal Metro|Côte-Vertu|2}}
}}
|Daily
|-
!{{rint|montreal|bus|all-day high-frequency|51}}
|Édouard-Montpetit
|{{plainlist|
* {{Station icon link|Montreal Metro|Laurier|2}}
* {{Station icon link|Montreal Metro|Édouard-Montpetit|5}}
* {{Station icon link|Montreal Metro|Université-de-Montréal|5}}
* {{ric|Exo|rail}} {{Station icon link|Exo|Montréal-Ouest|11|12|14}}
}} 
|Daily
Some rush hour services start and end at Snowdon metro
|-
!{{rint|montreal|bus|166}}
|Queen-Mary
|{{plainlist|
* {{Station icon link|Montreal Metro|Guy-Concordia|1}}
}}
|Daily
Serves Ridgewood after 9PM
|-
!{{rint|montreal|bus|night|371}}
|Décarie
|{{plainlist|
* {{Station icon link|Montreal Metro|Côte-Vertu|2}}
* {{Station icon link|Montreal Metro|Du Collège|2}}
* {{Station icon link|Montreal Metro|De La Savane|2}}
* {{Station icon link|Montreal Metro|Namur|2}}
* {{Station icon link|Montreal Metro|Place-Saint-Henri|2}}
* {{Station icon link|Montreal Metro|Lionel-Groulx|1|2}}
* {{Station icon link|Montreal Metro|Atwater|1}}
}}
|Night service
|-
!{{rint|montreal|bus|711}}
|Parc du Mont-Royal / Oratoire
|{{plainlist|
* {{Station icon link|Montreal Metro|Mont-Royal|2}}
}}
|Runs 7 days a week during the summer and weekends only the rest of the year
|-
|}

==Nearby points of interest==
* [[Décarie Autoroute]]
* [[Saint Joseph's Oratory]]
* [[Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce]] borough hall
* Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Library
* Collège International Marie-de-France
* [[Centre hospitalier universitaire de Montréal|University of Montreal Geriatrics Institute]]
* [[Segal Centre for Performing Arts]] (formerly the Saidye Bronfman Centre)

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|Snowdon (Montreal Metro)}}
* [http://www.stm.info/English/metro/a-m49.htm Snowdon Station - official web page]
* [http://mtlmap.com/index.php?mapcategory=metro&locationid=49 Snowdon metro station geo location]
* [http://www.metrodemontreal.com/orange/snowdon/ Montreal by Metro, metrodemontreal.com]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20111215172111/http://www.stm.info/english/info/reseau2011.pdf 2011 STM System Map]
* [http://www.stm.info/English/metro/a-mapmet.htm Metro Map]

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