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Edmonton station (French: gare d'Edmonton; IATA: XZL) or Edmonton Train Station, is the main inter-city train station in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, operated by Via Rail.The railway station is located approximately 5.5 kilometres northwest of Downtown Edmonton on a spur off the Canadian National Railway near the former site of the Edmonton City Centre Airport.
Toronto–Niagara Falls Toronto – Niagara Falls: April 1, 1978 January 18, 1992 Renamed as General Brock: November 23, 1997 December 9, 2012 Service continued by the Maple Leaf and Lakeshore West line: General Brock: January 19, 1992 November 22, 1997 Name dropped Toronto–North Bay Toronto – North Bay: April 1, 1978 January 14, 1990 Maple ...
Kidderminster Town lies only a few yards from Kidderminster station on the National Rail network. The name "Kidderminster Town" was chosen due to GWR custom, where there were two stations in a town, was to give the "Town" designation to the closer one to the town centre, a measure by which Kidderminster Town just manages to beat its National ...
Pacific Central Station is a railway station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, which acts as the western terminus of Via Rail's cross-country The Canadian service to Toronto and the northern terminus of Amtrak's Cascades service to Seattle and Portland. The station is also Vancouver's main intercity bus terminal.
The situation changed in 1878, when a north-facing connection was opened between Bewdley and Kidderminster, linking Kidderminster directly with the Severn Valley Line. [2] Kidderminster station in 1963, with auto-train to Bewdley. From about 1900, there was a brisk passenger trade of tourists and day trippers from the West Midlands conurbation.
Between 1955 and 1978 the MacTier Subdivision hosted CPR's premier transcontinental passenger train, the Canadian, from Toronto to Vancouver. Operation of the Canadian was transferred to Via Rail in 1978, which switched over to CNR's Newmarket Subdivision , rejoining the former CPR route at Parry Sound , 23 mi (37 km) north of MacTier.
Via Rail: Toronto, ON – Niagara Falls, ON [1994] 1992-1997 Great Laker: Via Rail: Toronto, ON – Windsor, ON [1982] 1982 Great Lakes Special: Canadian National: Winnipeg, MB – Port Arthur, ON [1935] 1935-1936, 1940 Great West: Canadian Pacific: Winnipeg, MB – Edmonton, AB [1940] 1939-1960 Green Mountain Flyer: Boston & Maine, New York ...
Following the CPR's withdrawal of passenger services to downtown Edmonton in 1972, the station building was demolished in 1978 despite an effort to save it. [2] Edmonton is still served by passenger trains, with Via Rail's Canadian stopping at its station since 1998, when the CN Tower station was closed and the CN yard in downtown Edmonton was removed.