- Burrard Station
Infobox Vancouver SkyTrain station
name = Burrard Station
caption = Entrance to Burrard Station.
first_opened =1985
line =Expo Line ,Millennium Line
connections = 2 Macdonald-16th Avenue
22 Knight / Macdonald
32 Dunbar
44 UBC / Downtown98 B-Line Richmond Centre
135 SFU
160 Port Coquitlam Station
190 Coquitlam Station
Richmond buses
South Delta buses
C21 Beach
N22 Macdonald-Dunbar / Downtown|Burrard Station is a SkyTrain station in
Vancouver, British Columbia ,Canada , served by the Expo andMillennium Line s. The station is located in theDunsmuir Tunnel located beneath Downtown Vancouver, and opened in1985 .Location
Burrard Station is located in the heart of
Vancouver ’s financial district and is very close toCoal Harbour and the central waterfront. The station is accessible from the surface via an entrance through a small park named Discovery Square whereBurrard Street meets Melville and Dunsmuir Streets, or via the underground shopping malls of the Royal Centre and Bentall Centre office complexes.ervices
Burrard Station is one of five SkyTrain subway stations currently serving Downtown Vancouver. It connects with many TransLink bus routes heading for North and West Vancouver, Richmond (including the
98 B-Line ), Delta, Surrey, and White Rock.Design
Like Granville Station, Burrard Station has a distinctive platform design. The westbound track (to Waterfront Station) is stacked on top of the eastbound track (to King George and
VCC-Clark Station s), with the westbound platform being one level above the eastbound platform.The structure housing the surface station entrance was designed to resemble Victorian-era British railway stations, with a peaked glass roof.
When originally opened, the station’s only underground passage was to the Bentall Centre. A connection to the Royal Centre was constructed some years later and an anticipated underground passage to Park Place was never built.
External links
* [http://www.translink.bc.ca/files/maps/stn_exch_maps/BurrardStation.pdf Official Burrard Station Map (PDF file)]
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