This is a video of two trainsets departing Belfast MSF (Maintenance Storage Facility) to enter revenue service for the weekday PM Rush Hour in 2022, after the Temporary Speed Restrictions were implemented, resulting in a revision to the operating schedule. These two additional trainsets are referred to as PM Rush Hour Trains 12 and 13.

OC Transpo requires 13 double trains to operate during the PM Rush Hour (11 double trains required during off-peak).

As a result of the Temporary Speed Restrictions implemented in late-July 2022, 13 double trains provides a 5 minute service end-to-end between Blair and Tunney's Pasture during the PM Rush Hour (previously every 4 minutes with 13 double trains). Meanwhile, 11 double trains provides a 6 minute service end-to-end (previously every 5 minutes).

The change in the operating schedule as a result of the implementation of the Temporary Speed Restrictions also changed the scheduled times of when the two additional trains for PM Rush Hour (Trains 12 and 13) departed the Belfast MSF, as well as the timing of when the in-service trains in opposite directions passed each other near the Belfast MSF Connector Tracks.

This video will show PM Rush Hour Trains 12 and 13 entering service at different angles and at different locations of interest.

Timestamp:
00:00 Intro
00:11 Train 12: Arriving and Leaving St. Laurent Station
03:06 Train 12: View from the Belfast Rd Overpass
07:34 Train 12: View from the Belfast MSF Connector Track
10:53 Train 12: View from the Mainline
14:01 Train 13: Arriving and Leaving Tremblay Station
16:29 Train 13: View from the Belfast Rd Overpass
19:27 Train 13: View from the Belfast MSF Connector Track

Filmed by "JCL"
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