Pacific Central Station

Pacific Central Station is the main intercity railway and bus terminal of Vancouver, British Columbia. It was built on reclaimed land by the Canadian Northern Railway as the terminus of its line to Edmonton and was first called False Creek Station, designed by the architecture firm Pratt and Ross. It was dedicated on November 2, 1919, a day after Canadian National Railway trains began using it. Via Rail consolidated its Vancouver operations here in 1979 and refurbished the station for Expo 86. Vancouver had designated the station and its rooftop neon sign as heritage in 1980, and in 1991 a newspaper contest chose the name Pacific Central Station, the same year it was designated a federal heritage railway station. Today it is the western terminus of Via Rail's The Canadian and the northern terminus of the Amtrak Cascades service to Seattle and Portland.