Coquitlam Central Station

Coquitlam Central

TransLink 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

Operated by

Coast Mountain Bus Company and TransLink

Line(s)

Canadian Pacific Railway

Platforms

1 side platform (West Coast Express)
2 side platforms (SkyTrain)

Tracks

2 (Canadian Pacific Railway)
2 (SkyTrain)

Construction

Structure type

At grade (West Coast Express)
Elevated (SkyTrain)

Parking

601 spaces

Bicycle facilities

lockers

Other information

Fare zone

History

Opened

November 1, 1995 (West Coast Express)
December 2, 2016 (SkyTrain)

Services

Preceding station		TransLink		Following station
Inlet Centre toward VCC–Clark		Millennium Line		Lincoln toward Lafarge Lake–Douglas
Moody Centre toward Waterfront		West Coast Express		Port Coquitlam toward Mission City

Coquitlam Central station is an intermodal rapid transit station served by both Metro Vancouver's SkyTrain metro system and its West Coast Express commuter rail system. 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 platform is located on the south side of the tracks accessed via a pedestrian tunnel. The adjacent bus loop opened in the early 1990s, while the train station opened in 1995, when the West Coast Express began operating, connecting Vancouver with Mission, British Columbia. 601 parking spaces are available on site. All services are operated by TransLink.

On December 2, 2016, the Millennium Line's Evergreen Extension entered revenue service at the station, providing service to VCC–Clark in Vancouver and Lafarge Lake–Douglas in Coquitlam.

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.

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.

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