 The other half is located in the city of Montreal (Côte-des-Neiges/Notre-Dame-de-Grace borough)

The station opened on 14 April 1889, when the Canadian Pacific Railway's Windsor Station and its approach tracks came into service.Its original name was Montreal Junction, the second place to bear this name, because it was (as it still is today) the place where numerous CPR passenger lines came together near the Montreal terminal.The present Montreal-West station was built in 1905.