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Transportation Lore of Vancouver

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When riding down the Expo Line from Edmonds to 22nd Street, one may notice that it is a rather lengthy ride. At nearly 2 KM, it's nowhere near the longest distance between stations, but when it was the interurban Central Park Line, there was a station in-between the two.


The BC Electric Railway (BCER) had a station around what is now 9th Avenue in Burnaby or simply situated south of a SkyTrain maintenance facility. Connaught Hill, named after after the western province of Ireland named Connaught, was a small station serving the now-residential area straddling the Burnaby and New Westminster border.

Map showing where the station was situation on 9th Ave

Back then, it was a large gravel pit. The hole created conveniently ended up becoming the SkyTrain maintenance facility we have today.

Still from a video showing the station

Today, there sits no station but you can visit its old location when travelling along the BC Parkway.

View looking south from approximately where the station was once located


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