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The British Columbia Electric Railway (BCER) was a historic railway which operated in southwestern British Columbia, Canada.Originally the parent company for, and later a division of, BC Electric Company (now BC Hydro), the BCER assumed control of existing streetcar and interurban lines in southwestern British Columbia in 1897, and operated the electric railway systems in the region until the ...
A video is then played about the history of the BCER on car 1207 and the tour ends with a ride on a velocipede. [16] In September 2024, an agreement was reached with Southern Railway of British Columbia and BC Hydro to resume service for 5 years between the Cloverdale and Sullivan stations. Approval was required from the two organizations as ...
Interurban 1223 Tram Barn – A restored 1912 B.C. Electric Railway interurban tram, complete with information about the history of the BCER and its role in the development of Burnaby. C.W. Parker Carousel – A restored 1912 vintage carousel. Each horse is a work-of-art that was hand-carved and painted.
The Vancouver Downtown Historic Railway was a heritage electric railway line that operated from 1998 to 2011 between Granville Island and Science World (Olympic Village Station after 2009), in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It operated only on weekends and holidays, usually from May to mid-October, and was aimed primarily at tourists.
Thus, the line was leased to the B.C. Electric Railway in 1905. The BCER created a substation at Marpole to power the new electric line. Passenger service launched on July 4, 1905 and ran until February 28, 1958. [1] Tram car 1220 was built in 1912 by the St. Louis Car Company. The train was brought to BC and used in the Marpole to Steveston ...
Kelowna Pacific Railway: Okanagan Valley, British Columbia: 1999 - 2013: Entered receivership July 2013. CN once again operates a portion of the line. The Vernon to Kelowna portion is under abandonment procedures. Kettle Valley Railway: Midway BC to Hope BC, Southern Interior Route: 1915–1961, all except Penticton area until 1989: Acquired by ...
The railway connected the Port Moody-Ioco spur of the Canadian Pacific Railway to the Coquitlam Dam and was built during the early 1910s in-order to haul supplies and materials to the dam. It was built by B.C. Electric in partnership with Robert McNair of the Robert McNair Shingle Company, who signed a twenty-five year deal with B.C. Electric ...
[1] 55 people were killed in the accident, [2] making it one of the worst transit disasters in British Columbia. [1] Only passengers on the left side of the streetcar escaped. [3] The Consolidated Electric Railway Company was forced into receivership by the disaster and emerged reorganized as the British Columbia Electric Railway on April 15 ...