Port Moody Station is a station on the West Coast Express

West Coast Express

West Coast Express is the interregional commuter railway in British Columbia, Canada. Opened in 1995, it links Mission, Maple Ridge, Pitt Meadows, Port Coquitlam, Coquitlam, and Port Moody with Waterfront Station in Downtown Vancouver, where it interchanges with SkyTrain rapid transit, SeaBus and...

 commuter rail line connecting Vancouver

Vancouver

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 to Mission, British Columbia

Mission, British Columbia

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, Canada

Canada

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. The station is located on the south side of the Canadian Pacific Railway

Canadian Pacific Railway

The Canadian Pacific Railway , formerly also known as CP Rail between 1968 and 1996, is a historic Canadian Class I railway founded in 1881 and now operated by Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, which began operations as legal owner in a corporate restructuring in 2001...

 (CPR) tracks in Port Moody, at the north foot of William Street, approximately 200 metres (656.2 ft) north of St. John's Street. The station opened in 1995, when the West Coast Express began operating. 300 park and ride spots are available. All services are operated by TransLink.

Services

Port Moody Station 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 bus loop and park-and-ride facility, which are served by the and local and express bus and Community Shuttle minibus services.

At the nearby intersection of St. John's and Williams Streets, 97 B-Line

97 B-Line

The 97 B-Line is a bus rapid transit line in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It connects Coquitlam Central Station on the West Coast Express system to Lougheed Town Centre Station on the SkyTrain system. It is operated by Coast Mountain Bus Company and funded by TransLink. Going west,...

 buses provide service to Coquitlam Central

Coquitlam Central Station

Coquitlam Central Station 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 tracks in Coquitlam, just west of the Lougheed Highway rail overpass, near the...

 and Lougheed Town Centre Station

Lougheed Town Centre Station

Lougheed Town Centre Station is a station on the Millennium Line, part of the SkyTrain rapid transit system in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia.-Location:...

s.

The planned Evergreen Line will extend the SkyTrain

SkyTrain

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 network northeast from Lougheed Town Centre Station

Lougheed Town Centre Station

Lougheed Town Centre Station is a station on the Millennium Line, part of the SkyTrain rapid transit system in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia.-Location:...

, integrating with Port Moody Station along the way to Coquitlam. Construction is expected to begin near summer 2012, with Evergreen Line operation in summer 2016.

History

Port Moody was the original Pacific

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 terminus of the CPR's transcontinental mainline from Montreal

Montreal

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 from 1886—before the railway was extended to Vancouver one year later in 1887 (1).

The original railway station—or an early station, if not the original one—now functions as the Port Moody Station Museum

Port Moody Station Museum

The Port Moody Station Museum is owned and operated by the Port Moody Heritage Society and is part of their effort to promote increased awareness and knowledge of Port Moody, British Columbia's heritage and history.- History :...

, and is located a few hundred metres west of the West Coast Express station, on Murray Street near the north foot of Moody Street.