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Platform level at King George in March 2019. King George is an elevated station on the Expo Line of Metro Vancouver's SkyTrain rapid transit system. The station is located in the south end of the Surrey City Centre district of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, and is one of the outbound termini of the Expo Line, the other being Production Way–University station.
SkyTrain system map. The Vancouver SkyTrain is a three-line urban mass transit system in the metropolitan area of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, managed by TransLink.The Expo Line was built for the Expo 86 World's Fair; [1] the Millennium Line opened in 2002, [2] followed by the Canada Line in 2009, which was built for the 2010 Winter Olympics. [3]
The Surrey Langley SkyTrain Project is a 16-kilometre (9.9 mi) elevated extension of the Expo Line from King George SkyTrain Station in Surrey to 203 Street in Langley City, routed mostly along Fraser Highway. [17]
The Expo Line connects Waterfront station in Vancouver to King George station in Surrey, principally along a route established by the Westminster and Vancouver Tramway Company as an interurban line in 1890. [15] The Expo Line (originally referred to as simply "SkyTrain" until the opening of the Millennium Line) was built in 1985 in time for ...
Gateway station was built in 1994 as part of the second extension of the original SkyTrain system (now known as the Expo Line).This extension was built to serve Surrey City Centre and included three stations; Gateway, Surrey Central and King George stations, the latter being the terminus of the Expo Line branch to Surrey.
Mark I vehicles are composed of mated pairs and normally run as six-car trains, but can also be run in two- and four-car configurations. The maximum based on station platform lengths is a six-car configuration, totaling 72 metres (236 ft 2 + 5 ⁄ 8 in) The SkyTrain fleet currently includes 150 Mark I trains. [9]
Surrey Central station was opened in 1994 along with two other stations when the Expo Line was extended from Scott Road station farther into Whalley, to the "Surrey City Centre" district. [2] Prior to the opening of the station, there was a bus loop on the site known as "Whalley Exchange", which opened in 1975. [ 3 ]
The westbound track (to Waterfront) is stacked above the eastbound track (to King George and Production Way–University stations), with the westbound platform being one level above the eastbound platform. At approximately 25 metres (82 ft) underground, Granville station is the deepest subway station on the Expo Line. [9]