Kamloops railway station

Kamloops railway station
Station statistics
Address 500 Lorne St, Kamloops, BC
Structure 2 storey heritage building
Other information
Opened 1927
Formerly Canadian National Railway
Via Rail
Services
Preceding station   Rocky Mountaineer   Following station
Terminus
 First Passage to the West
toward Calgary
Journey through the Clouds
Terminus

Kamloops railway station in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada is a railway station which acts as the overnight stopover point for the Rocky Mountaineer train service to Jasper, Banff and Calgary; from Vancouver.[1]

The station was originally built for Canadian National Railway [2] The station was declared a Heritage Railway Station in 1992.[3] Via Rail trains call at the Kamloops North railway station not this station. The station building was restored and houses The Keg restaurant. [4]

The Kamloops Heritage Railway, offers special excursion steam trains at various times through the year, trains depart from the station with tickets sold from their ticket office at 5-510 Lorne St near the station. [5]

Reference

  1. ^ Rocky Mountaineer Schedule
  2. ^ Heritage Designation
  3. ^ List of Designated Heritage Railway Stations
  4. ^ "Kamloops Heritage Railway - Spirit of Kamloops". Kamloops Heritage Railway. http://www.kamrail.com/spiritofkamloops.htm. Retrieved 2011-02-24. 
  5. ^ "Kamloops Heritage Railway - Location". Kamloops Heritage Railway. http://www.kamrail.com/location.htm. Retrieved 2011-02-24.