INSET: DOWNTOWN VANCOUVER
ROUTES
Operator: British Columbia Electric Railway Company (BCER)
URBAN STREETCAR ROUTES (VANCOUVER)
| 1 |
Granville - Broadway - Main - Hastings - Granville (circular route; both directions) |
| 3/7 |
50th & Main - Main - Hastings - Richards - Pacific - Granville - Broadway - Alma - Dunbar - 41st & Dunbar |
| 4 |
18th & Commercial - Commercial - Venables - Clarke - Hastings - Cambie (back: Richards) - Robson |
| 9 |
44th & Victoria - Victoria Dr. - Kingsway - Main - Powell - Cordova - Main Post Office (Hastings & Granville) |
| 10 |
54th & Victoria - Victoria Dr. - Kingsway - Main - Powell - Cordova - Granville - Pender - Georgia - Stanley Park |
| 11 |
Joyce Loop - Kingsway - Main - Powell - Cordova - Granville - Pender - Georgia - Stanley Park |
| 13 |
Robson - Richards (back: Granville) - Hastings - Renfrew - Dundas & Renfrew (Exhibition Park) |
| 14 |
Robson - Richards (back: Granville) - Hastings - Boundary & Hastings |
| 17 |
Cambie & Hastings - Cambie - Broadway - Oak - Marine Drive & Oak |
| 18 |
Nanaimo & Hastings - Nanaimo - Broadway & Nanaimo |
INTERURBAN ROUTES
| A1 |
Hastings & Carrall - Central Park (Burnaby) - New Westminster |
| A2 |
Hastings & Carrall - Burnaby Lake - New Westminster |
| A3 |
Vancouver (Pacific & Richards) - Granville - Arbutus - Marpole |
| A4 |
Vancouver (Pacific & Richards) - Granville - Arbutus - Marpole - Richmond - Steveston |
| A5 |
Vancouver (Pacific & Richards) - Granville - Arbutus - Marpole - New Westminster |
The following route ceased operation between 1949 and 1952:
- A3 (as well as the Vancouver-Marpole sections of A4 and A5): 17 June 1952.
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM
NETWORK LENGTH
- Vancouver streetcar lines: ? km.
- Interurban lines: ? km.
HISTORY
- Vancouver streetcars: (electric) 28 June 1890 - 21 Apr. 1955.
- North Vancouver streetcars: (electric) 1 Sept. 1906 - 23 Apr. 1947.
- Interurban trams: (electric) 3 June 1891 - 28 Feb. 1958.
- SkyTrain (automated LRT): 3 Jan. 1986 - today.
- Canada Line (Metro): 17 Aug. 2009 - today.
GAUGE
- Vancouver and North Vancouver streetcars: 1453 mm.
- SkyTrain / Canada Line: 1435 mm.
TRAM PRESERVATION
The Transit Museum Society runs vintage interurban streetcars between Granville Island and Science World on weekends and holidays
during the summer months. A demonstration service by modern trams from Europe was run on the same line during the 2010 Winter Olympics held in Vancouver.
SOURCES
PRINT
- Cockle, D. "Tram-train community rail for Fraser Valley", Tramways & Urban Transit, Dec. 2010 (73: 876), p.465-466.
- Conn, H. & Ewert, H. Vancouver's glory years: Public transit 1890-1915. North Vancouver: Whitecap Books, 2003.
- "End of city trams in Vancouver" (news item), The Modern Tramway, July 1955 (18:211), p.142.
- Ewert, H. The perfect little street car system. North Vancouver: North Vancouver Museum and Archives Commission, 2000.
- Ewert, H. The story of the B.C. Electric Railway Company. North Vancouver: Whitecap Books, 1986.
- Simons, V. "Vancouver prepares for the Winter Olympics", Tramways & Urban Transit, Jan. 2010 (73: 865), p.11-13.
- Transit System Map of Vancouver, B.C. [Vancouver]: Challengers Cartographers, 1949, 1952 and 1954.
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