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For passenger service, the PGE purchased seven Budd Rail Diesel Cars in 1956. Starting in the 1970s, the BCR started to purchase some used RDCs. [24] The RDCs were retired in 2002, when BC Rail ended its passenger services. The BCR also used some historic locomotives for its Royal Hudson excursion service.
The Kaoham Shuttle is a Lillooet–Seton Portage passenger rail service along the northern shore of Seton Lake in the Squamish-Lillooet region of southwestern British Columbia. By BC Highway 99, the eastern terminus is about 252 kilometres (157 mi) northeast of Vancouver.
In 2019, the South Fraser Community Rail campaign was being launched, promoted by former BC premier Bill Vander Zalm and former Langley mayor Rick Green, to resurrect passenger service to Chilliwack using the former BCER right-of-way. The proposed light-rail line would be 103 km (64 miles) long. [3]
The PGE line was established in 1912, and rail service to the Whistler area has been provided since the early days of operation until BC Rail ended all passenger service in 2002. The line is now mostly freight-only, with the high-end Rocky Mountaineer utilising the corridor once a week. [ 1 ]
TransLink (British Columbia) (6 C, 21 P) Pages in category "Passenger rail transport in British Columbia" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
The Cariboo Prospector, also named the Cariboo Dayliner, was a passenger train service in British Columbia, Canada, from North Vancouver to Lillooet and Prince George. It used Budd Rail Diesel Car trains and was operated by the Pacific Great Eastern, later known as the British Columbia Railway Company and then BC Rail. It debuted in 1915. [1]
Via Rail took over operation of CPR's passenger train service, called The Malahat, in 1978 when CPR demarketed its freight operation, claiming that freight traffic was declining. In 1996, CPR reorganized the E&N as an "internal short line" named E&N Railfreight while the railbarge operations were sold to Seaspan Intermodal .
The Jasper–Prince Rupert train (formerly the Skeena and Panorama, [4] now known as Trains 5/6, sometimes called The Rupert Rocket) [5] is a Canadian passenger train service operated by Via Rail between Jasper, Alberta, Prince George and Prince Rupert in British Columbia.