Vancouver: Train Travel

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Train Travel

The Pacific Central Station, at Main Street and Terminal Avenue, near the Main Street SkyTrain station, is the hub for rail service. Amtrak has daily service between Seattle and Vancouver. VIA Rail provides transcontinental service through Jasper to Toronto three times a week.

The volunteer-run Downtown Historic Railway operates two restored electric trams (built in 1905 and 1913) along a 5-km (3-mi) track between Science World and Granville Island. The trams, which also stop at 1st Avenue and Ontario Street and at Leg-in-Boot Square, near 6th Avenue and Moberly Street, operate every half hour between 12:30 PM and 5 PM weekends and holidays from mid-May to mid-October. The adult fare is C$2.

Information

Amtrak (800/872-7245. www.amtrak.com). Downtown Historic Railway (604/665-3903. www.trams.bc.ca). Pacific Central Station (1150 Station St., Downtown. No phone). VIA Rail (888/842-7245. www.viarail.ca).