Pacific Central Station

Pacific Central is a railway station in the Canadian city of Vancouver. He is on the 1150 Station Street, at the eastern end of False Creek estuary.

The terminal station is the western terminus of the transcontinental train The Canadian VIA Rail to Toronto and the northern terminus of Amtrak Cascades to Seattle. Excursion Trains to Calgary, Jasper and Whistler. Intercity buses of Greyhound Lines run from the terminal to the station forecourt. In the immediate vicinity of the station is Main Street - Science World Expo Line SkyTrain.

Travelers to the United States have been here through the entry border control of the USA. The train travels to Seattle this on a separate area of the station. This approach shortens the stay of the train on the actual land border considerably, since there takes place only a short customs control, but requires timely arrival of passengers significantly before the train departs. In the opposite direction, see passport and customs control will take place after the train arrives at the station, on the border is not held.

In 1912 the management of the Canadian Northern Railway ( CNR) of the city's offer to fill the eastern third of False Creek. The Great Northern Railway was involved in this project and built in 1915, on the land newly gained a railway station. In the same year the route of the CNR reached the outskirts of Vancouver. However, since the company was operating on the edge of financial ruin, could the construction work at the station, came to rest next to that of the Great Northern, begin until 1917. When the station was opened in November 1919, the company was already in liquidation ( it was eventually taken over in 1923 by the Canadian National Railway).

1965, the neighboring station of the Great Northern was demolished. 1979 moved VIA Rail, which had become the successor of the Canadian National Railway passenger, the terminus of all national lines to Pacific Central Station. The former main railway station of the Canadian Pacific Railway Waterfront was converted to the terminus of the SkyTrain.