Travellers to and from Vancouver can enjoy the Heritage Listed Beaux-Arts-style of our Pacific Central Railway Station while they wait for their VIA train ride to Seattle and parts south.

Often the location of popular TV and Films, Vancouver’s Pacific Central Station, built in 1917 by Canadian National Railways is a listed historic building in the Canadian Register of Places.

Riding the Amtrak Cascades Train from Vancouver to Seattle – avoid traffic, relax and enjoy the view.

I missed my train recently (*Always arrive 30 minutes before your ticket departure time as they close the doors 20 minutes before departure) and had a few hours to spend with this beautiful old building.

From The Canadian Register of Historic Places

The Canadian National Railways / VIA Rail Station (CNR) in Vancouver is a large, Beaux-Arts-style railway station, built in 1917. It is located on reclaimed land in the False Creek area of the city of Vancouver. The formal recognition is confined to the railway station building itself. The Vancouver Canadian National Railways (CNR) Station represents the end of the turn-of-the-century period of railway prosperity which culminated in the acquisition of much of Canada’s rail service by the government-owned CNR. Designed by the Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR) to serve as the western terminus of its transcontinental route, the Vancouver station opened as a CNR station.

Source: Heritage Character Statement, Canadian National Railways/VIA Rail Station, 1150 Station Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, January 1992.

Lots of things in Vancouver change, but a few things don’t.

The Canadian Register of Historic Places
http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=4527