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Service has been fully restored for the Réseau de transport métropolitain’s commuter trains, and departures on the Deux-Montagnes and Mascouche lines that had been cancelled Tuesday and Wednesday have been reinstated.

Caroline Julie Fortin, spokesperson for the RTM — the successor to the Agence métropolitaine de transport — explained the cancellations were because of the recent takeover of operations by Bombardier Transportation, which went into effect Saturday. The commuter train lines used to be managed by Canadian National and Canadian Pacific.

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She explained that as a result, there is a temporary shortage of train conductors — due in part to vacations — which forced them to cancel the trains.

Three train trips were cancelled Monday morning on the Deux-Montagnes line and two on the Mascouche line. The others were unaffected.

On Sunday, the RTM announced that there would be further cancellations through Wednesday, with one trip in each direction cancelled on each of the Deux-Montagnes and Mascouche lines Tuesday and Wednesday. Those cancellations were reversed on Monday afternoon.