ABBREVIATIONS ON THE MAP
| C/B |
Commercial/Broadway |
VC |
Vancouver City College (VCC)-Clark |
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ROUTES
Owner: TransLink
SKY TRAIN (ELEVATED/UNDERGROUND AUTOMATED LIGHT RAIL)
| E |
Expo Line |
Waterfront - Main St./Science World - Commercial/Broadway - Burnaby Metrotown - New Westminster - Surrey King George |
| M |
Millennium Line |
Waterfront - Main St./Science World - Commercial/Broadway - Burnaby Metrotown - New Westminster - Lougheed Town Centre - Brentwood Town Centre - Commercial/Broadway - VCC-Clark |
The route designations E and M are for convenience only, and are not used by TransLink.
CANADA LINE (CLASSIC UNDERGOUND/METRO LINE)
| Waterfront - Broadway/City Hall - Langara/49th Av. - Bridgeport - [Vancouver International Airport] / [Richmond Brighouse] |
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM
NETWORK LENGTH
- SkyTrain: 68.7 km.
- Canadas Line: 19.2 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.
WIKIS
WEB SITES
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