Coquitlam Central railway station

Coquitlam Central
West Coast Express station
Location	2920 Barnet Highway, Coquitlam Canada
Coordinates	49°16′26″N 122°48′00″W / 49.27389°N 122.80000°WCoordinates: 49°16′26″N 122°48′00″W / 49.27389°N 122.80000°W
Owned by	BC Transit, TransLink
Line(s)	Canadian Pacific Railway
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	At grade and elevated
Parking	614 spaces
Bicycle facilities	lockers
Other information
Fare zone	3
History
Opened	1995
Services
Preceding station   TransLink   Following station Port Moody toward Waterfront West Coast Express Port Coquitlam toward Mission City Inlet Centre toward VCC–Clark Millennium Line (Evergreen Extension, 2017) Lincoln toward Lafarge Lake–Douglas

Coquitlam Central is a station on the West Coast Express commuter rail line connecting Vancouver to Mission, British Columbia, Canada. The station is located on the north side of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) tracks in Coquitlam, just west of the Lougheed Highway rail overpass, near the Coquitlam Centre shopping mall. The adjacent bus loop opened in the early 1990s, while the train station opened in 1995, when the West Coast Express began operating. 614 parking spaces are available on site. All services are operated by TransLink.

History

Canadian Pacific Railway brought the first passenger train service to the area in the 1880s, with the first permanent station built at Fraser Mills in 1910, on the branch line to New Westminster. The train was a vital factor in bringing new settlement, including loggers and their families, into the Coquitlam area.^[1]

The area around Coquitlam Centre has been an important focal point for bus services since the 1970s. Prior to the early 1990s, buses converged along Pinetree Way north of the intersection of Lougheed and Barnet Highway. In the early 1990s, a bus exchange was built on the southwest corner of the intersection, in roughly the same location as the current exchange, which was built during or after construction of the adjacent West Coast Express station.

Services

Coquitlam Central is served by five West Coast Express trains per day in each direction: five in the morning to Vancouver, and five in the evening to Mission. In addition, there are two buses (called the "TrainBus") operating from Mission to Vancouver in the morning (after all trains) and three in the evening returning to Mission in the evening (again, after all trains), stopping at all West Coast Express stations. On the weekend with no rail service there are three inbound a.m. buses and three outbound p.m. ones; with two each way on Sundays. The station is adjacent to a major bus exchange and park-and-ride facility, which is served by 97 B-Line buses to Lougheed Town Centre station and by local and express buses Community Shuttle minibuses.

In addition, the Evergreen Extension of the Millennium Line will extend the SkyTrain network northeast from Lougheed Town Centre station, integrating with Coquitlam Central along the way. Construction is expected to begin near summer 2012, with Evergreen Extension operational in early 2017.

Bus routes

Bus bay assignments:^[2]

Bay	Route	Destination
1	143	Simon Fraser University
	150	White Pine Beach Special May to September only
	C26	Buntzen Lake Special July to September only
2	97 B-Line	Lougheed Station
3	188	Port Coquitlam Station
	C38	Prairie Victoria at Rocklin
4	C27	Port Moody Station via Heritage Woods
	C29	Parkway Boulevard via Plateau Boulevard
5	C30	Lafarge Park Harwood at Gabriola
6	701	Haney Place Maple Ridge East Dewdney Trunk at 248th
	N9	Downtown Howe at Dunsmuir
7	160	Port Coquitlam Station
8	178	Port Moody Station
	C28	Port Moody Station via Noon's Creek
9	151	Lougheed Station via Coquitlam Rec Centre
10	152	Lougheed Station via Mariner via Chilko (peak only)
11	169	Braid Station
12	160	Vancouver Burrard Station
	190	Vancouver Burrard Station (morning peak hours only)
13	WCE	Waterfront Mission City

References

1. "Fraser Mills Railway Station". Art by Joy A. Kirkwood. Retrieved March 2016.
2. "Coquitlam Station" (PDF). TransLink. April 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2015.

External links

Media related to Coquitlam Central Station at Wikimedia Commons

• Fraser Mills Station