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Railway Attractions In British Columbia

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British Columbia is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. With an estimated population of 4.8 million as of 2017, it is Canada's third-most populous province. The first British settlement in the area was Fort Victoria, established in 1843, which gave rise to the City of Victoria, at first the capital of the separate Colony of Vancouver Island. Subsequently, on the mainland, the Colony of British Columbia was founded by Richard Clement Moody and the Royal Engineers, Columbia Detachment, in response to the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush. Moody was Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for the Colony and t...
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Railway Attractions In British Columbia

  • 1. SkyTrain Vancouver
    SkyTrain is the metropolitan rail system of the Metro Vancouver Regional District, serving Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and surrounding municipalities. SkyTrain has 79.6 km of track and uses fully automated trains on grade-separated tracks running on underground and elevated guideways, allowing SkyTrain to hold consistently high on-time reliability. The name SkyTrain was coined for the system during Expo 86 because the first line principally runs on elevated guideway outside of Downtown Vancouver, providing panoramic views of the metropolitan area. SkyTrain uses the world's longest cable-supported transit-only bridge, known as SkyBridge, to cross the Fraser River.With the opening of the Evergreen Extension on December 2, 2016, SkyTrain became the longest rapid transit system in Cana...
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  • 2. Kaoham Shuttle Lillooet
    The Kaoham Shuttle is a diesel multiple unit passenger service on CN's Squamish Subdivision near Lillooet, operating as a partnership between the railway and the Seton Lake Indian Band, whose communities it serves. The train was started by BC Rail after the end of its passenger service in 2002 between North Vancouver and Prince George via Squamish, Lillooet, Williams Lake, and Quesnel. The train runs daily between Lillooet and Seton Portage. After BC Rail was sold to CN the Kaoham Shuttle kept BC Rail logos but was repainted in CN colours. Currently this is the only train that operates between Lillooet and Seton Portage; trips to D'Arcy are available through advance booking. The Rocky Mountaineer does pass through the area but does not stop until Quesnel. According to a report in the BBC, ...
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  • 3. Evergreen Line Sky Train Coquitlam
    The Evergreen Extension is a 10.9-kilometre long extension of the Millennium Line of Metro Vancouver's SkyTrain rapid transit system. The extension runs from Lougheed Town Centre in Burnaby to Lafarge Lake–Douglas in Coquitlam, which added six new SkyTrain stations and upgraded an existing station on the Millennium Line. It has been in operation since December 2, 2016.Since the extension opened, the Millennium Line has operated between VCC–Clark and Lafarge Lake–Douglas. The extension is expected to serve 70,000 passengers per day in 2021.
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