Hundreds lined up at train stations across the region Saturday for the first of two days of free service across the newest branch of the REM light-rail network.

The Deux-Montagnes branch was inaugurated with pomp on Friday, when Prime Minister Mark Carney, Premier François Legault and Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada took the inaugural trip from the downtown McGill station to the new terminus in Deux-Montagnes.

On Saturday, it was the public’s turn to kick the tires of the new stations. The 14 new stations that are part of that branch, and the five original stations between Brossard and Central Station were open to the public at large on both Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. On Monday at 5:30 a.m., the trains will welcome their first paying customers.

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