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Waterfront Station is a major public transportation facility in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia , Canada . LOCATION Waterfront Station is located on the south shore of the Burrard Inlet , just east of the north foot of Granville Street at 601 West Cordova Street. The station is within walking distance of Gastown , the Helijet Airways helipad, the Canada Place cruise ship terminal, and the Harbour Centre revolving restaurant and observation deck. SERVICES Waterfront Station is the downtown Vancouver terminus for the following services:
All of the above services are operated by TransLink . HeliJet International does not serve Waterfront Station ''per se,'' but its helipad is adjacent to the SeaBus terminal and passengers can use the SeaBus's overhead walkway to get to and from Waterfront Station's main terminal building. Waterfront Station is connected to the Waterfront Hotel and Canada Place by underground passage. It is also connected to Howe Street through a second entrance. HISTORY Waterfront Station was built by the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) and was the Pacific terminus for the CPR's transcontinental passenger trains to Montréal and Toronto until circa 1979 , when VIA Rail took over the railway's passenger operations and rerouted trains to Union Station (now called Pacific Central Station ) near False Creek . Waterfront Station's transformation into a public transit facility began in 1977 . That year, the SeaBus began operating out of a purpose-built floating pier that was connected to the main terminal building via an overhead walkway above the CPR tracks. The CPR's passenger platforms and some of its tracks were torn up in the early 1980s to make way for the guideway of the SkyTrain (the Expo Line), which opened in late 1985 . During Expo 86 , special SkyTrain shuttle trains operated between Waterfront Station and Stadium Station , connecting the Canadian Pavilion at Canada Place to the main Expo site. In 1995 , platforms were built adjacent to the SkyTrain station for the new West Coast Express, which uses the existing CPR tracks. (The West Coast Express platforms are in the same location as the old CPR platforms.) In 2002 , Millennium Line trains began sharing the SkyTrain tracks with the Expo Line. A private ferry company, Royal SeaLink Express , ran passenger ferries from a new dock on the west side of the SeaBus terminal to Victoria and Nanaimo in the early 1990s , but ultimately folded. In 2003 , HarbourLynx began operating out of Royal Sealink's old facility at the SeaBus terminal. In 2006 , following major engine problems with their only vessel, they folded as well. TRIVIA Waterfront Station is the home of the first Starbucks outlet in Vancouver, which opened in 1987 and was one of the first Starbucks locations outside of Seattle, Washington . THE NEXT STATION IS... |
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