Port Moody railway station

Port Moody
West Coast Express station
Location	65 Williams St, Port Moody Canada
Coordinates	49°16′41″N 122°50′47″W / 49.27806°N 122.84639°WCoordinates: 49°16′41″N 122°50′47″W / 49.27806°N 122.84639°W
Owned by	BC Transit, TransLink
Line(s)	Canadian Pacific Railway
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	At grade
Parking	300 spaces
Bicycle facilities	lockers
Other information
Fare zone	3
History
Opened	1995
Services
Preceding station   TransLink   Following station Waterfront Terminus West Coast Express Coquitlam Central toward Mission City

Port Moody is a station on the West Coast Express commuter rail line connecting Vancouver to Mission, British Columbia, Canada. The station is located on the south side of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) tracks in Port Moody, at the north foot of Williams Street, approximately 200 metres (660 ft) north of St. John's Street. The station opened in 1995, when the West Coast Express began operating. 296 park and ride spots are available.^[1] All services are operated by TransLink.

History

First 1882 CPR station

The first station in Port Moody was built in 1882^[2] as the original western terminus for the Canadian Pacific Railway, before it was extended to Vancouver.^[3] The second railway station, built in 1908, was first moved to a location west of Queen Street^[2] in 1945 and, when the CPR discontinued passenger service in 1976, was bought by The Port Moody Historical Society, who moved it again in 1978 to Murray Steet, where it now serves as the home of the Port Moody Station Museum.^[4]

Services

Port Moody 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 buses in the morning and three outbound ones in the afternoon and evening; with two each way on Sundays. The station is adjacent to a bus loop and park-and-ride facility, which are served by the local bus, express bus, and Community Shuttle minibus services.

At the nearby intersection of St. John's Street and Williams Street, 97 B-Line buses provide service to Coquitlam Central and Lougheed Town Centre stations.

The planned Evergreen Line will extend the SkyTrain network northeast from Lougheed Town Centre station, integrating with Port Moody station with a transfer to Moody Centre station on its way to Coquitlam. The Evergreen Line is expected to begin operation in early 2017.

References

1. List of Park-and-Ride Services Provided by TransLink
2. Al Sholund. "THE RAILWAY STATION THAT RODE THE RAIL". Discover Port Moody, Heritage and History. City of Port Moody. Retrieved March 2016. Port Moody’s first railway station was built in 1882
3. "CPR Railway Station". Canada's Historic Places. Parks Canada. 14 November 1978. Retrieved March 2016. Chosen as the Western Terminus of the long awaited transcontinental railway, for a brief period Port Moody was the scene of intense speculation, which subsided when the rail line was extended to Vancouver. This circa 1907 station, which replaced the original 1882 Western Terminus station
4. "Our History". Port Moody Station Museum. Port Moody Heritage Society. Retrieved March 2016. The Port Moody Station, built in 1908, was the second railway station in the area.