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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.
Most were short diversions of routes at their outer ends, to terminate at new SkyTrain stations, including Nanaimo station, 29th Avenue station [13] and Joyce station, [13] but the extension of route 19 Kingsway to Metrotown was 5 kilometres (3.0 mi) long and was the first extension of Vancouver's trolley bus system outside the city of ...
Served as a canteen for the Vancouver Fire department from the mid-1950s until 1984. Restored to original Pacific Stage Lines specifications and donated to the Transit Museum Society in 1986. 1947 Canadian Car-Brill Model T-44 trolley coach, B. C. Electric #2040. One of the first trolleybuses for Vancouver to replace streetcar lines starting in ...
A TransLink-operated electric trolley bus in Vancouver Bus service operates throughout most of the region under a subsidiary of TransLink, known as Coast Mountain Bus Company . TransLink was established by the provincial government as a way to divorce itself from the responsibilities of roads, bridges and transit service.
Toronto Transit Commission Flyer trolley bus no. 9228, operating on route 63-Ossington, 1987. This is a list of trolley bus systems in Canada by province. It includes all trolley bus systems, past and present.
View history; Tools. Tools. move to ... Download as PDF; Printable version ... Map of Vancouver Downtown Historic Railway. Granville Island: Alder Crossing Moberly ...
According to Graham R. Crampton, SkyTrain and San Diego's trolley system were among the most successful transit systems in three areas: stimulation of growth in city centres; stimulation of growth in declining areas; and change in the pattern of urban development. Vancouver's system was particularly impressive, according to E. Babalik: [35]
The last vestiges of British Columbia Electric Railway's streetcar and interurban rail system were dismantled in 1958; many of the urban lines were replaced by trolley bus routes of the Vancouver trolley bus system, which opened in 1948. Another major bridge across the Fraser River, the Port Mann Bridge to Surrey, opened in 1964.