or Saint-Lambert and Montréal. Service to Coteau on Fridays only. Ottawa - Kingston - Toronto No local service between Ottawa and Fallowfield, or Guildwood and Toronto. Structure Ottawa station is an international style building composed of exposed cantilevered Vierendeel trusses supported by massive concrete piers. This creates a spacious open plan interior with a powerful roofline. The station's walls are a non-loadbearing glass skin and extend through the open steel trusses to the roof deck. None of the interior walls extend above the lower chords of the trusses, allowing for an uninterrupted view of the roof structure. Inside, an expansive waiting area features a circular ticket office and a descending circular ramp leading to the far platforms. History For more information on the early history of rail in Ottawa, see Ottawa Union Station. The first passenger rail services in Ottawa began in 1854, with the opening of the Bytown and Prescott Railway. A number of railways would follow, and their various services would eventually be consolidated at Ottawa Union Station (active 1912–1966) at Confederation Square, a short distance from the Parliament buildings and south of the Château Laurier Hotel. However, in 1966 railway services were moved to their current location east of downtown and the Rideau River in the neighbourhood of Eastway Gardens. The present Ottawa station is the outcome of an urban renewal plan by the French urban planner Jacques Greber, which was commissioned by Prime Minister of Canada William Lyon Mackenzie King, who sought a re-imagining of the city following World War II. Track relocation Among the proposals in Greber's city plan was the relocation of railway tracks outside of the downtown core. This was not the first proposal to relocate trackage away from the central sections of Ottawa, as it had previously been discussed as early as 1915 and 1924. At that time, Ottawa was crossed by 11 train lines with over 150 level crossings, causing numerous traffic disruptions. Many of the railroads that crossed the city at the time were originally built in the nineteenth century to serve the lumber industry and were no longer appropriately sited. The tracks divided neighbourhoods and were considered unsightly. Additionally, trains at that time were pulled by steam locomotives which brought their noise and soot to the downtown Union Station and rail yard. As Time Magazine noted in 1948: "Ottawa, dominated by the anachronistic Gothic buildings of Parliament, has remained