INSET: DOWNTOWN VANCOUVER
ROUTES
Operator: British Columbia Electric Railway Company (BCER)
URBAN STREETCAR ROUTES (VANCOUVER)
| 1 |
18th & Commercial - Commercial - Venables - Clark - Hastings & Clark |
| 3 |
50th & Main - Main - Hastings - Richards (back: Cambie) - Robson |
| 14 |
Robson - Richards (back: Granville) - Hastings - Kootenay Loop |
INTERURBAN ROUTES
| A1 |
Hastings & Carrall - Central Park (Burnaby) - New Westminster |
| A2 |
Hastings & Carrall - Burnaby Lake - New Westminster |
| A4 |
Marpole - Richmond - Steveston |
| A5 |
Marpole - New Westminster |
The following routes ceased operation between 1952 and 1955:
- A1: 14 July 1954.
- A2: 22 Oct. 1953.
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: 3 Jan. 1986 - today.
GAUGE
- Vancouver streetcars: 1453 mm.
- SkyTrain: 1435 mm.
SOURCES
PRINT
- 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 story of the B.C. Electric Railway Company. North Vancouver: Whitecap Books, 1986.
- Transit System Map of Vancouver, B.C. [Vancouver]: Challengers Cartographers, 1949, 1952 and 1954.
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