Port Moody railway station
Port Moody | |||||||||||
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| West Coast Express station | |||||||||||
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| Location |
65 Williams St, Port Moody Canada | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 49°16′41″N 122°50′47″W / 49.27806°N 122.84639°WCoordinates: 49°16′41″N 122°50′47″W / 49.27806°N 122.84639°W | ||||||||||
| Owned by | BC Transit, TransLink | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | Canadian Pacific Railway | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side platform (West Coast Express) | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 (Canadian Pacific Railway) | ||||||||||
| Connections |
 Moody Centre  97 B-Line | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | At grade | ||||||||||
| Parking | 300 spaces | ||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | lockers | ||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 3 | ||||||||||
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| Opened |
1882 (original station) 1995 (West Coast Express) | ||||||||||
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Port Moody is a station on the West Coast Express commuter rail line connecting Vancouver to Mission, British Columbia, Canada. The station is located on the south side of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) tracks in Port Moody, at the north foot of Williams Street, approximately 200 metres (660 ft) north of St. John's Street. The station opened in 1995, when the West Coast Express began operating.[1] All services are operated by TransLink.
History
The first station in Port Moody was built in 1882[2] as the original western terminus for the Canadian Pacific Railway, before it was extended to Vancouver.[3] The second railway station, built in 1908, was first moved to a location west of Queen Street[2] in 1945 and, when the CPR discontinued passenger service in 1976, was bought by The Port Moody Historical Society, who moved it again in 1978 to Murray Steet, where it now serves as the home of the Port Moody Station Museum.[4]
Services
Port Moody is served by five West Coast Express trains per day in each direction: five in the morning to Vancouver, and five in the evening to Mission. In addition, there are two inbound buses (branded as "TrainBus") operating from Mission to Vancouver in the morning (after morning train service has ended) and three outbound buses in the evening returning to Mission (after all evening train service has ended), stopping at all West Coast Express stations. There is no West Coast Express service on weekends and holidays. The station is adjacent to a bus loop and park-and-ride facility, which are served by the local bus, express bus, and Community Shuttle minibus services.
At the nearby intersection of St. John's Street and Williams Street, 97 B-Line buses provide service to Coquitlam Central and Lougheed Town Centre stations.
The Evergreen Extension to the Millennium Line will extend the SkyTrain network northeast from Lougheed Town Centre station to Moody Centre station, which will connect with this existing station. The Evergreen Extension is scheduled to begin revenue service on December 2, 2016.
References
- ↑ List of Park-and-Ride Services Provided by TransLink
- 1 2 Al Sholund. "THE RAILWAY STATION THAT RODE THE RAIL". Discover Port Moody, Heritage and History. City of Port Moody. Retrieved March 7, 2016.
Port Moody’s first railway station was built in 1882
- ↑ "CPR Railway Station". Canada's Historic Places. Parks Canada. 14 November 1978. Retrieved March 7, 2016.
Chosen as the Western Terminus of the long awaited transcontinental railway, for a brief period Port Moody was the scene of intense speculation, which subsided when the rail line was extended to Vancouver. This circa 1907 station, which replaced the original 1882 Western Terminus station
- ↑ "Our History". Port Moody Station Museum. Port Moody Heritage Society. Retrieved March 7, 2016.
The Port Moody Station, built in 1908, was the second railway station in the area.